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Downy young. — Forehead and sides of head pale buff to deep brown- 

 ish buff, the former with a median streak of black, this, however, not 

 extending to base of bill; a narrow loral streak and an irregular auric- 

 ular spot of blackish; crown and occiput mixed black and cinnamon- 

 brown or light snuff brown, dotted laterally with pale buff or buffy 

 whitish ; back and rum^p mixed black and cinnamon-brown or light snuff 

 brown, spangled with pale grayish buff or buffy whitish dots, the wings 

 mostly light brown; under parts immaculate dull white, the chin, 

 throat, and foreneck more or less tinged with buff, sometimes deeply 

 buffy. 



Adult male.— Wing, 94.5-100 (97.9); tail, 37-40.5 (38.6); exposed 

 culmen, 20.5-23 (21.8); tarsus, 19-21 (20.5); middle too, 15-17.5 

 (16.7).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 98-102 (100.7); tail, 37-41.5 (39.2); exposed 

 culmen, 21.5-22 (21.8); tarsus, 19.5-20.5 (20.2); middle toe, 16.5-17 

 (16.8)." 



Breeding in northeastern Siberia (Wrangel Island; Pitlekaj; 

 Providence Bay; Cape Serdze) migrating southward through south- 

 eastern Siberia, Japan, China, etc., to India (Elephant Point, Ran- 

 goon; Akyab; Tenasserim; Arakan coast) ; casual in Alaska (Choris 

 Peninsula, summer of 1849; Point Barrow?). 



[Platalea] pygmea Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 140 ("Surinam"; exMus. 

 Adolphua Frederici, 1754c,); ed. 12, i, 1766, 231.— Hermann, Tab. Affinat. 

 Anim., 1783, 135.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 615.— Latham, Index 

 Orn., ii, 1790, 669. 



Platalea pyginaea Thunberg, K. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Holm., 1816, 194-198, 

 pi. 6. — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 645. — Lafresnaye, Rev. 

 Zool., 1842, 402. — Lilueborg, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 299. — Pelzeln, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1860, 460. 



Platalea pygmea Sonnini and Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxi, 1819, 571. 



Eurinorhynchus pygmxus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49. — Hart- 

 LAUB, Rev. Zool., 1841, 5; v, 1842, 36-38, pi. 2, fig. 1 (monogr.).— Blyth, 

 Jom-n. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxv, 1856, 445. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1859, 201 (n. e. coast Asia?).— Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 409 

 (Amoy, China). — Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1872, 221 (Yezo, Japan). — 

 Gould, Birds Asia, vii, pt. 24, 1872, pi. 66 and text. — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mu3., no. 24 (Nom. N. Am. Birds), 1881, 85, no. 542* (Point Barrow, 

 Alaska).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 165 (Port Providence, Plover 

 Bay, Siberia, Sept.). — Blakiston, Amend. List Birds Japan, 1884, 11. 



E[urinorhync}ius] pygmxus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 580. 



Eu[vinorhynchus\ pygnicvus Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus Asiat. Soc, 1849, 270. 



[Eurinorhynchus] pygmxus Gr.\y, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 51, no. 10323. 



Eurinorhynchus pygmaeus Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 325 (crit.), 328 

 (monogr.). 



a Five specimens. 

 & Three specimens. 



c Linnseus's type was in the collection of the Museum of Upsala, Sweden, as late 

 as 1860, according to Lilljeborg (Joiu*n. fiir Orn., 1860, 299). 

 40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt 8 21 



