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T[otanus] caligatus Lichtexstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 74, in text (Paraguay; 

 no descr.; based on Petit Chorlito brun Azara, Apunt. Parag., iii, 1805, 315). 



Totanus caligatus Burmeister, Syst. ITeb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 370. 



Tringa glareola (not of Linnaeus) Ord, ed. Wilson's Am. Om., vii, 1825, 57. 



Tringa maeroptera Spix, Av. Bras., ii, 1825, 76, pi. 92 (seacoasts, Rio de Janeiro 

 and Bahia, Brazil: see Hellmayr, Abh. K. B. Akad. Wiss.,ii Kl., xxii 

 Bd., iii Abth., 1905, 714).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 163 

 (Bogota, Colombia). 



Totanus macropterus Gould, Zool. Voy. 'Beagle,' iii (Birds), 1841, 129 (Monte- 

 video, Uruguay). 



TRINGA SOLITARIA CINNAMOMEA (Brewster). 



WESTERN SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 



Similar to T. s. solitaria, but larger; summer adults with upper 

 parts much less distmctly spotted with whitish, white bars on tail 

 averaging decidedly narrower (and blackish ones correspondingly 

 broader), and middle pair of rectrices often (usually?) wholly deep 

 brownish gray; young with spotting on upper parts decided brownish 

 buffy or cinnamomeous, instead of whitish. 



Downy young. — General color of upper parts cmnamon-drab, 

 longitudinally varied with brownish black; forehead and crown with 

 a broad median streak of black: a sharply defined black loral streak, 

 extending from bill to eye; a narrow black stripe across auricular 

 region (longitudinally), or a black post-auricular spot; occiput brown 

 centrally, black exteriorly, the black border sending from each side a 

 forward branch; an oval patch of brownish black on median portion 

 of rump, this bordered along each side hj a stripe of pale dull 

 vinaceous-buff, the two buffy stripes converging or almost uniting 

 both anteriorly and posteriorly; wings cinnamon-drab, margined 

 posteriori}' with dull white, the brown portion with several irregular 

 spots or blotches of black; under parts dull white. 



Adult inale. —Vi'ing, 124-137 (132.2); tail, 52.5-59 (56.2); exposed 

 culmen, 27.5-32 (30.2); tarsus, 29-32 (30.1); middle toe, 23.5-27 

 (24.8) .« 



Adult female.— Wmg, 137-142 (138. 7); tail, 56-59 (57.6); exposed 

 culmen, 29-32 (30.3); tarsus, 30-33 (31.7); middle toe, 24-25 (24.7).^ 



Breeding from northwestern Alaska (Kotzebue Sound), Mackenzie 

 (Great Bear Lake, etc.), and northern Alberta, southward to British 

 Columbia (Ducks), Utah (Parleys Park, Wahsatch Mountains), Colo- 

 rado (up to 10,000 feet), and New Mexico (San Miguel County, up to 

 8,000 feet) ; migrating southward over Mexico (including Lower Cali- 

 fornia) and, probably, Pacific slope of Central and South America 



<^ Sixteen specimens. 

 b Four specimens. 



