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Glottis natans (not of Otto, 1797) Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., 1816, 305. 



Totanus glottoides Vigors, Proc. Comm. Sci. Zool. Soc. Lond., i, 1831, 173 (Hima- 

 layas). — Gould, Cent. Birds Himalaya Mts., 1832, pi. 76. — Hodgson, in 

 Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 86.— Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, 66 (Amoy); 1861, 343 

 (Takow to Pekin).— Gray, Ibis, 1862, 236 (Norfolk Island). 



Limosa glottoides Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, 163 (Deccan). 



Totanus nebularius glottoides Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 

 128, in text (e. Asia; crit.). 



Glottis nebularius glottoides Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 

 225. 



Glottis foridamts Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 51 (Florida; type now 

 in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 730.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 538. 



Glottis vigorsii Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, Grallee, 1844, 99 (Nepal, India). 



Glottis niveigula Gray, Cat. Mam., etc., Nepal pres. Hodgson, 1846, 138 (Nepal; 

 based on Totanus nivigula Hodson, Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Grallee, pi. 85, 

 figs. 1, 2, no. 766). 



Glottis albicollis Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 292 (new name for Totanus glottoides 

 "Gould"); Vogelf., 1855, 311. 



Glottis linnaei Malm, Goteb. och Bohusl. Fauna, 1877, 81, 278. 



Totanus littoreus Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889,266 (Quilimane; Zanzibar); 

 1890, 109 (Cameroons); 1892, 9 (Bukoba); 1897, 4 (Togo Land); 1902, 12 

 (Togo Land); Syst. Verz., 1889, 48. — Brusina, Motr., etc. (Orn. Croatica), 

 1890, 90.— Fleck, Journ. fur Orn., 1894, 383 (Walvisch Bay, s. w. Africa).— 

 Reiser, Orn. Balcanica, 1894, 167. — Sjostedt, MT. deutsch. Schutz., viii, 

 1895, 13 (Cameroons).— Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 120, 239, pi. 38. 



Genus NEOGLOTTISa Ridgway. 



Medium-sized to rather large Tringinae (wing 149-199 mm.) re- 

 sembling Glottis but with bill more slender, less compressed, and not 

 distinctly recurved, the exposed culmen much shorter than tarsus; 

 tarsus nearly one-third as long as wing, and the lower back and rump 

 not white. 



Bill slender (its depth at base equal to less than one-eighth the 

 length of exposed culmen), slightly compressed, very faintly if at all 

 upturned for distal half, the exposed culmen nearly as long as tarsus 

 (iV. melaaolevbca) or decidedly shorter (iV. Jlavipes); nostrils sub- 

 basal, longitudinally linear (slit-like), pervious; nasal groove extend- 

 ing less than half the distance to tip of maxilla (about two-fifths the 

 distance in iV. melanoleucus, nearly half the distance in N. Jlavipes); 

 loral and malar antiae on practically the same vertical line, the mental 

 antia as far as or beyond base posterior end of nostril ; edge of frontal 

 feathering forming a more or less deeply concave line at base of cul- 

 men. Wing ample, pointed, the longest primary (outermost) ex- 

 ceeding distal secondaries by more than half the length of wing; 

 elongated tertials rather broad, though tapering terminally, the tip 

 of longest falling considerably short of tip of fourth primary (counted 

 from outside). Tail about two-fifths as long as w^ing, very shghtly 



a Neos, new; -j-Glottis. Type, Scolopax melanoleuca Gmelin. 



