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Totanus oceanicus Lesson, Gompl. GCuvr. Buffon (Leveque ed.), xx, 1847, 244 



(Oualan Island). — Hartlaub, Archiv fiir Nat., 1852, Bd. i, 121, 135 (Marquesas; 



Caroline Islands); Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1854, 167 (Bonin and Marianne Islands)^ 



168 (Caroline Islands). 

 [Gambetta] oceanica Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 

 [Heteroscelus] oceanicus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



327 (St. Savoi, Samoan Islands). 

 Actitis pulverulenhis (not Totanus pulverulentus Miiller) Lichtenstein, Nom. 



Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (Hawaiian Islands). 

 Totanus polynesue Peale, Rep. U. S. Expl. Exped. (Wilkes), Birds, 1848, 237, 



(Fiji Islands; Paumotu Group). — Hartlaub, Archiv fiir Nat., 1852, Bd. i, 



120 (Fiji; Tonga; Samoa; Society Islands; Paumotu ; Marquesas Islands ; Mathew 



Island); Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 169, 170 (Tonga; Samoa; Society Is.; Paumotu 



Group). 

 Totanus semipalmatus (not Scolopax semipalmala Gmelin) Streets, Am. Nat., 



xi, 1877, 71, in text (Christmas Island). 



Genus ACTITIS Illiger. 



Actitis Illiger, Prodromus Orn., 1811, 262. (Type, as designated by Stejneger. 



1885, and by elimination, Tringa hypoleucos Linnaeus; see Stejneger, Bull, 



U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 131.) 

 Tringoid.es Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., ii, "1828" (Nov., 1827), 326- 



(Type, as designated by Richmond, 1917, Tringa inacularia Linnaeus.) 

 Tryngodes (emendation) Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



327. 

 Guinetta Gray, List Gen. Bii'ds, 1840,68. (Type, Tringa hypoleucos Linnaeus.) 



Small Triiiginge (wing about 89-110 mm.) with the strongly 

 rounded or graduated tail very nearly to more than half as long as 

 wing; nasal groove extending for two- thirds the distance to tip of 

 maxiUa; exposed culmen as long as tarsus, and wing with a broad 

 white band extending obhquely across inner webs of remiges. 



Bill straight, moderately stout, its depth at base equal to about 

 one-sixth the length of exposed culmen, the latter as long as tarsus ; 

 nasal groove extending for about two-thirds the distance to tip of 

 maxilla, broad basally but very narrow anterior to nostril; tip of 

 both culmen and gonys slightly but distinctly convex, especially the 

 former. Wmg moderately long and pointed, the outermost primary 

 exceeding the distal secondaries by about one-half the length of wing. 

 Tail sliglitly less to sliglitly more than half as long as wing, strongly 

 rounded or graduated; rectrices 12. Tarsus as long as or longer 

 than middle toe with claw, much more than one-fourth as long as 

 wing, scutellate anteriorly and posteriorly, but scutella of plant a 

 tarsi smaller, narrower, and much less distinct; bare portion of tibia 

 about half as long as middle toe, scutellate posteriorly; lateral toes 

 much shorter than middle toe, the inner slightly shorter than the 

 outer; a small but distinct web between basal phalanges of outer 

 and middle toes, but none between middle and inner toes. 



