2. HiEMATOPUS. 121 



Hah. N.W. America, from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, south 

 to California. 



a. Ad. st. N.W. America. Purchased. 



b. limn. sk. Aleutian Islauds ( Wossne- Seebohni Coll. 



sensky) . 



c. Ad. sk. Puget Sound (Sm. Inst). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Denmanlsl., Straits of Georgia. Dr. Lvall [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Ilaro Channel. Dr. Lyall [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. San Juan de Fuca. Capt. Kellett& Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 



g. 2 ad. sk. Santa Cruz Is!., California, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June 4 (Hensh. Coll.). 



12. Hsematopus ater. 



Hseruatopus niger (wee Pall.), Quay fy Gabn. Toy. ' JJranieJ Zoul. 

 i. p. 129, pi. 24 (1824 : Falkland Is.) ; Cuv. BJegne Anim. i. 

 p. 504 (1829). 



Hrematopus townsendi, Audub. B. Amer. pi. 427. fig. 3 (c. 1826) ; 

 id. Orn. Bioqr. v. p. 247 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, v. p. 245, 

 pi. 326 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 547 (1847). 



Ostralega atra, Less. Traite (FOrn. p. 548 (1831). 



Hrematopus ater, Vieill. et Oudart, Gal. Ois. ii. p. 88, pi. 230 (1834) ; 

 Cass, m Baird's B. K Amer. p. 700 (1858 : Coast of Chili) ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 386 (Falkland Is.) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 155 (Falkland Is.) ; Schl. Mas. Pat/s-Bas, Cm-sores, p. 76 

 (1865, pt.) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 331, 339 (Chili) ; id. §■ Sale. 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 499 (Port Laguna) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 22, 

 no. 10066 (1871); Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 143 

 (1873) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1875, p. 377 (Masafuera Isl.) ; Durnf. Ibis, 

 1878, p. 403 (Tambo Point) ; Scl. $• Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 438 

 (Elizabeth Isl.) ; iid. Voy. ' Challenger,'' ii. p. 109 (1881) ; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 15 (Port Henry) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 429 

 (San Lorenzo Is., Peru) ; Tacz. Orn. Peron, iii. p. 351 (1886) ; 

 Ridqiv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 183 (18S7) ; Macf. Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 205 (San Lorenzo Isl.) ; Scl. # Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 176 

 (1889 : Tambo Point) ; Bidgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. xii. p. 136 

 (1889: Elizabeth Isl.) ; Lucas, op. cit. xiii. p. 130 (1890) ; Oust. 

 Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Ois. p. 119 (1891). 



Hfernatopus unicolor {nee Wagl.), Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 96 

 (Falkland Is.). 



Htematopus niger ater, Baird. Brewer, §• Ridqw. Water-Birds N. 

 Amer. i. p. 109 (1884) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 311 

 (1888). 



Melanibvx ater, Heine $• Beichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 337 

 (1882-90: Chili). 



Adult. Similar to H. niger, and with a brown back, but rather 

 darker on the under surface than that species, the breast being 

 black like the head and neck. The bill, however, is very much 

 deeper and is compressed towards the end, almost to the same 

 extent as the Scissor-bill (Bhynchojis). The angle of the genys is 

 very strongly marked, as is also the dertral portion of the culmen : 

 " bill dark pink ; legs and feet greenish yellow ; iris dark orange " 



