620 MOTACILLID.?:. 



5. NEOCOEYS. ^^^^ 



Neocorys, ScMer, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5 N. spraguii. 



Foot of Neocorys spraguii. 



Range. Upper Missouri River and Saskatchewan in North America. 

 Brazil in South America. 



1. Neocorys spraguii. 



Alanda spragueii, Audub. B. Amer. viii. p. 217, pi. 486 (1844). 

 Otocorys sprangeri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850). 

 Agrodroma spraguei, Baird in Stamb. Rep. p. 329 (1852). 

 Neocorys spraguei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. 



p. 234 (1858) ; Blak. Ibis, 1862, p. 4; id. 1863, p. 61 ; Coues, Key 



N. Amer. B. p. 91 (1872) ; Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. Hist. N. 



Amer. B. i. p. 175, pi. 10. fig. 5 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 42 



(1874) ; id. B. Color. Vail. p. 193, note (1878) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; Coues, Kexj N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 286 (1884). 

 Anthus spraguei, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 155 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 250, no. 3634 (1869). 



Hind claw rather long and only gently curved, not quite so long 

 as the hind toe itself. Tarsus equal to hind toe and claw com- 

 bined. Primaries subequal and longest, 2, 3, 4 ; fftli primary 

 much shorter than the fourth, and about equal to longest secon- 

 daries. Primaries emarginate, 2, 3, 4. Feet in skin reaching to 

 three fourths of the tail. 



Adult. General colour above ashy brown, mottled with dark- 

 brown centres to the feathers ; the mantle and upper back blackish 

 brown, with narrow margins of ashy white ; wing-coverts dusky 

 brown, with ashy-whitish edges, tinged with sandy rufous at the 

 tips of the median and greater coverts ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky brown, fringed with dull ashy ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with ashy brown, whitish along the outer web of the first 

 primary and also at the ends of the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers 



