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Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 96 (Mississippi Valley range and records). — Chapman, 

 Auk, V, 1888, 395. — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Supple- 

 ment to Check List, 1889, 7 (Check List no. 258a); Check List, 2nd ed., 

 1895, no. 258a.— Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2nd ser., ii, 1889, 

 273 (near La Paz, San Quentin Bay, and Magdalena Bay, Lower California, 

 winter resident). — Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 92 (Snake River, 

 Idaho, July; Great Salt Lake, Utah, breeding). — Fisher (A. K.), N. Am. 

 Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 23 (Morro Bay, California, November). — Richmond and 

 Knowlton, Auk, xi, 1894, 302 (near Moreland, Montana, Aug. 19). — Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 594.— Beyer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 

 (1900), 96 (coast of Louisiana, common resident). — Jones, Wilson Bull., 

 n. 8., xiii, 1906, 131 (Lorain Co., Ohio, Sept. 17, 1906). — Bishop, Auk, xxiii, 

 1906, 344 (Stony Creek, Connecticut, Aug. 15, 1897).— Roberts, in Wil- 

 cox's Hist. Becker Co., Minnesota, 1907, 168 (breeding). — Beyer, Allison, 

 and KoPMAN, Auk, xxv, 1908, 179 (coast Louisiana, resident). — Kermode, 

 Prov. Mus. Victoria, 1909, 38 (Clover Point, Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia). 



S[ymphemia] semipalviata inornata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 594; 

 2d ed., 1896, 588. 



Catoptrophorus seinipalmatus inornatus American Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee, Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 368; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 122.— Jones 

 (L.), Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 121 (Cedar Point, n. Ohio, 1 spec, Sept. 17, 

 1906). — Bridge, Auk, xxix, 1912, 537 (Nahant Beach, Massachusetts, Aug. 

 10, 1912).— Hathaway, Auk, xxx, 1913, 551 (Rhode Island records). 



Genus GLOTTIS Koch. 



Glottis Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., 1816, pp. xlii, 304. (Type, by tautonymy, 



Totanus glottis Bechstein.=Scolopax nebularia Gunnerus.) 

 Limicula Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 23. (Type, Scolopax glottis 



LATHAM=iS'. nebularia Gunnerus.) 

 Limicola (emendation) Sharpe, Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 480, in synonymy 



of Glottis. 

 Limosa (not of Brisson, 1760) Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, xii, pt. i, 1824, 85. 



(Type, Scolopax glottis Latham=5. nebularia Gunnerus.) 

 Nea BiLLBERG, Synop. Faunae Scaud., i, pt. 2, 1828, tab. A and p. 155. (New 



naiue for Glottis "Nilsson.") 



Rather large Tringinse (wing 176-191 mm.) with the rather stout, 

 compressed, and distinctly upturned hill nearly as long as tarsus, 

 the latter much more than one and a half times (nearly twice) as 

 long as middle toe without claw, and with nasal groove extending 

 decidedly loss than half way to tij) of maxilla. 



Bill nearly as long as tarsus, stout (its depth at base equal to about 

 one-seventh the length of exposed culmen), com.pressed (decidedly 

 deeper than wide at base) slightly but decidedly upturned or recurved 

 for distal half, the extreme tip of maxilla slightly but distinctly 

 decurved; nasal groove extending much less than half way to tip of 

 maxilla; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally linear, pervious; loral and 

 malar antia^ on same vortical hno (decidedly posterior to end of nostril), 

 the mental antia noarJv on same vortical line with anterior end of 



