358 BULLETIiSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Rhyacophilus ochropus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 200 ■ 

 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. [551]); Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. [551].— Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 636. — Baird, Brewer, and PiIdgway, Water 

 Bii-ds N. Am., i, 1884, 282. 



R[hyacophilus] ochropus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 639. 



Tetanus achropus Crespon, Orn. Gard, 1840, 427. 



Totanus rivalis Brehm, Yog. Deutschl., 1831, 642 (Germany); Vogelf., 1855, 313. 



Tetanus leucourus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 643 (Germany). 



Totanus leucurus Gray and Hardwicke, Illustr. Ind. Zool., ii, 1834, pi. 5, fig. 1.— 

 Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 313. 



[Helodromas] leucurus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 



Helodromas ocrophus assami Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 2. May 2, 1913, 203 

 (Siberia; south in winter to jMalay Arc hipelago). 



TRINGA SOLITARIA SOLITARIA Wilson. 



SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts deep 

 grayish brown, with an olivaceous cast, the pileum and hindneck 

 narrowly and indistinctl}^ streaked with whitish, the back, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts rather sparsely speckled with the same, the upper 

 tail-coverts barred with white; primary coverts and primaries dull 

 slate-blackish or dusky; middle rectrices dusky grayish brown, dot- 

 ted or spotted along edges with white, the rest of tail white, broadly 

 barred with dusky, the bars more numerous on outer webs, where 

 extending to the base of the rectrices; eyelids, supraloral stripe, and 

 under parts white; sides of head (except as described), sides of neck, 

 foreneck, and chest streaked with dusky grayish brown; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts slate color, regularly and broadly barred with 

 white; bill blackish terminally, greenish horn color (in hfe) basaUy; 

 iris dark brown; legs and feet ohve-greenish (in life). 



Winter plumage. — Similar to the summer plumage but upper parts 

 more grayish and less distinctly speckled with white; foreneck, chest, 

 etc., very indistinctly streaked, or simply washed, with grayish. 



Young. — Above grayish brown (hghter and more oUvaceous than 

 in adults), thickly speckled with white or buffy whitish; pileum and 

 hindneck plain brownish gray; sides of head and neck nearly uniform 

 gray, the foreneck, however, streaked with darker. 



Adult male.— Wing, 121.5-129.5 (126.5); tail, 50-57 (53.7); ex- 

 posed cuhnen, 27-30.5 (28.8); tarsus, 28-31 (29.9); middle toe, 24-26 

 (24.7).« 



o Eleven specimens. 



