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Aegialodes<^ Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 327. 

 (New name for Gambetta Kaup, not Koch, on grounds of purism.) 



Medium-sized Tringinge (wing 144-160 mm.) with exposed culmen 

 nearly as long as tarsus, the latter a little more than one and a half 

 times as long as middle toe without claw, and with secondaries white. 



Bill rather slender, straight, its depth at base equal to less than 

 one-seventh the length of exposed culmen, the latter nearly as long 

 as tarsus; nasal groove rather broad, extending halfway to tip 

 of maxilla; nostril basal (very nearly in contact with loral antia), 

 slit-like, overhung by a membrane. Wing rather long, pointed, the 

 longest primar}^ (outermost) exceeding secondaries by about one- 

 fourth the length of wing. Tail much more than one-third as long 

 as wing, truncate: rectrices, 12. Tarsus nearly to quite one-third as 

 long as wing, scutellate anteriorly and posteriorly; bare portion of 

 tibia more than half the length of the tarsus, scutellate anteriorly 

 and posteriorly; a distinct web uniting basal phalanges of outer and 

 middle toes, and a much smaller web between inner and middle toes. 



Coloration. — Under parts, upper tail-coverts, and rump mostly 

 white; secondaries white and proximal primaries broadly tipped with 

 white. 



Range. — Palsearctic Region. (Monotypic.) 



TOTANUS TOTANUS (Linnnaeus). 



RED-SHANK. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — Above grayish brown (between 

 light hair brown and drab), the pileum and hindneck streaked with 

 blackish, the back and scapulars streaked or irregularly marbled 

 with the same, the markings assuming a more transverse form (often 

 that of regular bars) on posterior scapulars and tertials; smaller 

 wing-coverts mostly grayish brown, like back, etc., indistinctly 

 margined with paler, the middle and greater coverts similar but 

 usually more or less barred with dusky and whitish; secondaries with 

 terminal half (approximately) white, sometimes with a few concealed 

 dusky bars, the basal portion barred with dusky and white or 

 brownish gray; alulae, primary coverts, and longer (distal) primaries 

 dusky or dull black, the innermost (proximal) primaries extensively 

 white distall}^, irregularly barred or vermiculated with dusky; shaft 

 of outermost primar}^ white, of the others dusky; lower back and 

 rump white, sometimes nearly immaculate but usually sparsely 

 flecked, at least beneath the surface, with grayish or dusky; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail white, barred with dusky, the middle pair of 

 rectrices more or less tinged with brownish gray; an orbital ring 

 of dull white, interrupted at anterior angle of eye ; sides of head and 



a At7iaXw577s, found on or near the shore. (Richmond.) 



