116 CHAEADKIID^:. 



the outermost ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series pure 

 white, with only black at the extreme base ; bastard-wing feathers 

 broadly tipped with white ; primary-coverts and quills blackish 

 brown, the first five quills unmarked with white, the remainder 

 with white near the end of the shaft extending on to the outer web 

 in a longitudinal patch, the base of the inner web white ; second- 

 aries pure white, the innermost ones brown like the back ; head 

 and neck all round black ; a white spot below the eye ; remainder of 

 under surface of body from the fore-neck downwards pure white, 

 including the under wing-coverts and axillaries : " bill (in life) rich 

 vermilion ; legs and feet pale dull fleshy white ; eyelids rich ver- 

 milion ; iris bright yellow " (Baird, Braver, 6f Ridgway). Total 

 length 15-5 inches, culmen 3*3, wing 9-7, tail 3 - 9, tarsus 2-1. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 17 

 inches, culmen 3-2, wing 10, tail 3-9, tarsus 2-2. 



Young. Marked as in the adult, but the whole of the dark 

 feathers tipped or margined with rusty-buff spots or bars ; the 

 white upper tail-coverts also tinged with rust-colour ; black of the 

 head and throat dusky, with rusty edgings to the feathers of the 

 crown ; the chin white. 



Hab. North America, the West India Islands, and Central 

 America, as far as Southern Brazil in Eastern South America. 



a, b. S : c - 2 j Cobb's Island, Virginia, Julv, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d,e. Pull.sk. Sept. (H. W. Henshmv).* 



f-l. 3 2 ad.et Corpus Christi Pass, Texas, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 imm. sk. May, June (F. B. Arm- 



strong). 

 m. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



n, o, p. Imm. Cozuniel Island (G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. Gaumer). 



q, r. Ad. sk. Chiapam, Guatemala, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O. &). 

 s. Ad. sk. Veragua {E. Arce). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



t. 2 a( h g k. Santa Catarina, Brazil (TT. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Rogers) . 



6. Haematopus galapagensis. 



Haematopus palliatus (nee Temm.), Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 323 



(Indefatigable Is.) ; Sundev. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 125 (Galapagos) ; 



Salv. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 502 (1875 : Indefatigable Is.). 

 Haematopus galapagensis, Ridgiv. Auk, hi. p. 331 (1886: Chatham 



Is.) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 325 (1886) : id. Man. N. 



Amer. B. p. 187 (1887) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. pp. 116, 



128 (1889 : James Is.). 

 Haematopus leucopus galapagensis, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 307 (1888). 



Adult male. Similar to H. palliatus, but much darker and more 

 blackish above, with the tail almost entirely blackish except for a 

 little white at the extreme base, and a white edging to the outer 

 feather ; there is no white shaft-mark on any of the primaries, and 

 none of the secondaries are pure white, as all of them have some 

 dark markings near the ends ; the upper tail-coverts are very 



