982 WASHINGTON HYPOTHETICAK l.lS'l 



with lengthened bare space behind; general color of back and wings green, the interscapniars 

 lanceolate and tapering, with a glaucons or slaty cast ;ind with white shafts; middle coverts 

 bright bottle-green edged with buff; greater coverts dnll bottle-green edged with whitish; 

 the primaries dusky slate, with glancons and greenish reflections; the inner primaries and 

 secondaries narrowly tipped with white; nnderparts slaty or brownish gray, with huffy or 

 oehraceons washing, and irregularly outcropping white; bill dark green above, yellow below; 

 iris and lores yellow; feet and legs greenish yellow. Immature: Occipital crest not so long; 

 crown streaked with cinnamon; chestnut of neck not so deep, reduced in extent; back 

 feathers unmodified, plain, glossy greenish; wing-coverts broadly margined with ochraceous, 

 some of the feathers, with the outer scapulars, having wedge-shaped tips of huffy or whitish; 

 nnderparts whitish, striped with greenish- and reddish-dusky, most heavily on sides of breast 

 and neck. Length lfi.oo-2j.oo; wing 7.25; tail 2.70; hill 2.47; tarsus 205; middle toe and 

 claw 2,00. 



Recognition Marks. — Crow size; chestnut and greenish coloration above. 



Nesting. — Nest: a platform of sticks placed at moderate heights in bushes of swamp 

 or trees of neighlioring orchards, etc. Eggs: 3-6, pale greenish blue, Av. size, 1.50 XIM4. 

 Season: May: one brood. 



General Range. — Temperate North .\merica from Ontario and Oregon, southward to 

 Colomhi.i, W'uezuela, and the West Indies; Bermuda. 



Supposed Occurrence in Washington. — Ardea vircscens. J. M. Kecl<, Wilson Bulle- 

 tin No. 47, June, 1904, p. 34. — "Ncjt conmion sunnner resident." Mr. Keck does not feel 

 absolutely sure of his records but in view of the bird's known occurrence in the vicinity of 

 Portland he may well have been correct. 



H. No. 39- 



DOWITCHI'R. 

 A. O. U. No. 31. Macrorhamphus griseus ((huel.). 



Description. — Similar to M. seolopaeeus dj. ;: p. 648) but' smaller, with nnderparts 

 more lightly colored (less rufescent) and neck and breast with more of dusky speckling. 

 Length of adult lo.oo-ii.oo; wing 2.65; bill 2.30; tarsus 1.40. 



General Range. — North America at large, or perhaps casual west of the Rockies; 

 breeduig in high latitudes; south in winter to Brazil. 



Supposed Occurrence in Washington. — Recorded by JNlerrill as taken on the St. 

 Joseph marshes of northern Idaho: hence strongly inferential for Washington. The early 

 records (Baird, Cooper and Suckley, etc.) based on specimens still extant prove to have 

 referred to M. seolopaeeus. 



H. No. 40. 

 BLACK-XECKEI) STILT. 



A. O. U. No. 22.'). Himantopus mexicanus (Midi.). 



Description. — .Idiilt male: A white spot above eye and another below eye nearly 

 meeting behind : forehead, region about the base of bill, rump, upper tail-coverts, and entire 

 imderparts, except lining of wing, white ; tail ashy gray above ; remaining plumage glossy, 

 greenish black; bill black; eye red; legs and feet lake red (drying yellow). Adult female: 

 Similar to adult male, but hack and scapulars margined with huffy or whitish: the black 

 of head and neck finely marked with the same. Length 13.00; wing g.oo; tail 3.00; bill 2.60; 

 tarsus 4.20; exposed portion of tibia 325. 



General Range. — Fortiierly the United .States at large, now chiefly confined to the 

 western interi'ir. south to tropical South America. Breeds in U. S. range from Oregon to 

 Texas. 



Supposed Occurrence in Washington. — Recorded by Newberry as occurring north 

 to the Columbia. Il ^idl breeds sp:iringly in southern Oregon and it may well have nested 

 at an earlier day .•ibdiit the lakes of the Big Bend country in Washington. 



H. No. 41. 



NELSON'S (iULL. 



A. O. U. No. 4('). Larus nelsoni f-Iensh. 



Description. — Most like L. glaueeseens {q. v. p. yii) but mantle lighter, as light as in 

 glaueus: the tips of the primaries heavily crossed with slate-gray — hence darker in this 

 regard than glaueescens. "A dubious gidl" (Coues). Evidently difficult to distinguish from 

 immature Glaucous-wings in which the gray of wing-tips is darker than in adults. 



Range. — "Coast of Norton Sound, .Alaska." 



