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the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, from Kamchatka to Australia, 

 Borneo, etc.) Heteroscelus brevipes (extralimital).** 



HETEROSCELUS INCANUS (Gmelin). 



WANDERING TATTLER. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — Upper parts plain, deep slate-gray 

 (or between slate-gray and deep neutral gray), the upper tail-coverts 

 sometimes narrowly margined with whitish; primaries and primary 

 coverts dull blackish or dusky, the former with shafts brown on outer, 

 white on inner, surface, the outermost, however, with shaft white on 

 outer side also; a rather well-defined superciliary stripe of grayish 

 white, and a dusky loral stripe, from base of maxilla to anterior 

 angle of eye; suborbital region grayish white, narrowly and indis- 

 tinctly streaked with dusky grayish, the auricular region similar but 

 more decidedly grayish, especially the upper portion; under parts 

 white, the foreneck streaked, the remainder of under surface (except 

 chin and throat) barred with dusky slate color; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts white, barred and spotted with dusky slate color; bill 

 dusky, more brownish basally (greenish horn color with base dull 

 yellow in life); iris dark brown; legs and feet light brownish (yellow 

 in life). 



Winter plumage. — Upper parts slightly lighter slate-gray than in 

 summer; under parts without streaks or bars, the white shaded with 

 slate-grayish on foreneck, chest, and sides. 



Young. — Similar to the w^inter plumage, but tertials, scapulars, 

 and upper tail-coverts indistinctly spotted with white along edges, 

 and slate-gray of sides, etc., faintly mottled with, white. 



Adult male.— Wing, 161-174 (169.5); tail, 71-77.5 (74.4); exposed 

 culmen, 34-40.5 (37.9); tarsus, 32-34 (32.9); middle toe, 26-28 "(27).^ 



o Totanns brevipes Vieillot, Xouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 410 (no locality); 

 Cassin, Orn. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1858, 339. — [Gambetta] brevipes Bonaparte, Compt. 

 Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. Heteroscelus brevipes, part, Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 734.— Eeteractitis brevipes Stejneger, Bull. 29, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 137 (Com- 

 mander Islands; synonymy; crit.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 1898, 281 (Kuril 

 Islands); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 449. — Totanus incanus brevipes 

 Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidfe, 1887, pp. xxiii, 361. — Heteractitis incanus brevipes 

 NikolsW, Faun. Sakhal., 1889, 265; Hartert, Ibis, 1904, 427 (upper Lena River, 

 Siberia^ — Heteroscelus incanus brevipes Mathews, Birds Austral., iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 

 1913, 207. — Tringa brevipes Mathews, Birds Austral., iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, pi. 

 207. — Tolajuis incanus (not Scolopax incana Gmelin) and Heteroscelus incanus of 

 numerous authors. — Trynga glareola (not Tringa glareola Linnaeus) Pallas, Zoogr. 

 Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 194, pi. 60. — Totanus pedestris, part, Lesson, Traits d'Orn.> 

 1831, 5b2.— Totanus pulverulentus Muller, Naturk. Verb., 1844, 152 (Timor); Tem- 

 minck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, 1849, 109, pi. 65. — [Gambetta] pulveru' 

 Zenf a Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597; Gould, Handb. Birds Austral., ii, 

 1865, 268. — Actitis pulverulenta Dybowski and Parvex, Joiu-n. fiir Orn., 1868, 337. — 

 Totanus griseiceps Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848, 39 (Port Essington, Australia). 



^ Ten specimens. 



