26, OCHTHoDHOMUS. UlJiJ 



primary-coverts tipped with white ; greater coverts also white at 

 the ends, forming a broad wing-band ; primaries white at base, and 

 having white shafts ; secondaries also edged with white at the tips, 

 and having the bases white, this increasing towards the inner 

 secondaries, which are almost wholly white, with only a little 

 irregular black marking; tail-feathers black, fringed with white 

 at the ends, and having broad black bases, the white increasing 

 towards the outer feather ; head like the back, as also the sides of 

 the face and lores, the latter surmounted by a broad white streak, 

 which extends over the eye ; throat white ; lower throat and chest 

 dark ashy brown, mottled on the latter with a few dark cross- 

 bars ; remainder of under surface of body pure white, with a few 

 longitudinal streaks or arrow-head markings of black on the sides 

 of the body ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the lower 

 primary-coverts ashy grey, forming a patch : " feet olive-green, 

 Claws black ; iris black ; eyelids black " (Dr. C'oppinger). Total 

 length 9 - 5 inches, culmen 0*95, wing 6 - 6, tail 2*0, tarsus 1-15, 

 middle toe and claw 1-2. 



Adult in breeding-plumage. Seems to be darker than in winter. 

 Blackish, with white or rufous spots on the feathers, while the 

 under surface is spotted with arrow-head markings of blackish 

 brown. 



Towng. Very much like the adults, but with narrow whitish 

 fringes to the feathers of the upper surface, these fringes having 

 sub-terminal lines of blackish ; throat and chest white, thickly 

 mottled with ashy cross-bars ; the flanks with small spots and 

 streaks of blackish. 



Hub. Western North America, from Alaska south to Chili. 



d,h. Ad.sk. N.W.America. Purchased. 



c. cJ juv. sk. St. Michael's, Alaska, Aug. 19 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



(E.W.Nelson: Hensh. Coll.). 



d. Ad. sk. Vancouver Island. J. K. Lord, Esq [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Orcas Island. Dr. Lyall [P.]. 



f. Ad.sk. Central Chili (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



g. h. Ad.sk. Chili. Bridges Coll. 



«'. Ad.sk. Chili ( T. Bridges). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Van Islands, Straits of Magel- Dr. Coppin*er |~P-]- 



Inn, Feb. 13. 



26. OCHTHODROMUS. 



Type. 



Ochthodromus, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xviii (1852). 0. wilsoni. 



t Srrepidesmus, I>j>. C. R. xliii. p. 417 ( 1850) O. geoffroyi. 



Pluviorhynchus, lip. ('. R. xliii. p. 417 (1866) O. obscurus. 



Hyetoceryx, Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hem. p. .'J3b' 



I L890) O. obscurus. 



Range. With the exception of Western Europe, Western Africa, 

 the extreme south of South America, and Oceania, nearly cosmo- 

 politan. 



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