APPENDIX. 



haft of first primary white; several inner 



the base of the culmen. Wing-feathers dusky; 

 primaries with white area along their outei- 

 webs; the secondaries and greater coverts 

 tipped with white. Tail-feathers like the 

 back, tipped with white, and successively 

 paler laterally, till the outermost are nearly 

 white; upper tail-coverts also tipped with 

 whitish. Bill and feet black. The young 

 lack the distinctive chestnut and black mark- 

 ings, though the breast may be somewhat 

 suffused with pale cinnamon, and at an early 

 age all the feathers of the upper parts have 

 pale edgings. Wing 5.25; tail 2.25; bill 

 0.70; tarsus 1.15; middle toe 0.75. A well- 

 known species of wide distribution in the 

 Old World, recorded from Choris Peninsula, 

 Alaska. (See Ibis, 1870, p. 384; P. Z. S. 

 1871, pp. Ill, 114.) It is entirely different Fi,,. .-.o- -Mongolian Plover. 



from any other plover described in this work, and should long ago have been taken into 

 the Key. 



COUES KEY, 1884. 

 592. Podasocys montanus. 

 5iJ3. Vanellus cristatus. 



594. Aphriza viigata. 



595. Haematopus ostrilegus. 



596. palliatus. 



597. niger. 



598. Strepsilas interpres. 



599. n^elanocephalus. 



600. Recurvirostra americana. 

 6Ul. Ilimantopus mexicanus. 



602. Steganopus wilsoni. 



603. Lobipes hyperboreus. 



604. Phalaropus fulicarius. 



605. Philohela minor. 



606. Scolopax rusticula. 



607. Gallinago media. 



608. wilsoni. 



509. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



610. scolopaceus. 



611. Micropalama himantopus. 



612. Ereunetes pusillus. 



613. pusillus occidentals. 



614. Actodromas minutilla. 



614 />/.s. Add: Tringa damascensis 

 Resembling the last in coloration. Shaft 

 longer than tarsus or culmen ; tips of outs 

 tip of tail beyond points of the folded 



UNION LIST, 1886. 



281. ^gialitis montana. 

 [269. J Vanellus vanellus. 



282. Aphriza virgata. 

 ^285.] Haematopus ostralegus. 



286. 

 287. 

 283. 

 284. 



224. 

 223. 

 222. 



228. 



palliatus. 

 bachmani. 

 Arenaria interpres. 



melanocephala- 



225. Recurvirostra americana. 



226. Himantopus mexicanus. 

 Phalaropus tricolor. 



lobatus. 



Crymophilus fulicarius. 



Philohela minor. 

 [227.] Scolopax rusticola. 

 [229.] Gallinago gallinago. 



230. delicata. 



231. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



232. scolopaceus. 



233. Micropalama himantopus. 



246. Ereunetes pusillus. 



247. occidentalis. 

 242. Tringa minutilla. 

 000. [Not admitted in the List.] 



Damascene Sandpiper. I.oxg-toed Stint. 

 of first primary only, white. Middle toe and claw 

 stretched toes reaching far beyond end of tail, and 

 wings; four outer pairs of tail-feathers of equal 



