244 CHARADRIID-S:. 



Everm. t. c. p. 349 (Indiana) ; Brown, Auk, vi. p. 69 (1889 : Maine) ; 

 Scott, t. c. p. 159 (Florida) ; Hasbrouck, t. c. p. 237 (Eastland Co., 

 Texas) ; Torrey, t. c. p. 274 (New England, winter) ; Pindar, t. c. 

 p. 313 (Fulton Co., Kentucky) ; Thompson, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 506 (1890 : Manitoba) ; Meams, Auk, vii. p. 52 (1890 : Arizona 

 Mts.) ; Mackay, t. e. p. 295 (Muskeget Isl., Mass.); Cherrie, t. c. p. 333 

 (Costa Rica); Cory, t. c. p. 374 (Anegada Isl.), p. 375 (Virgin 

 Gorda) ; Mcrriam, N. Amer. Faun. no. 3, p. 89 (1890) ; id. op. eit. 

 no. 5, p. 92 (1891: Idaho); Northrop, Auk, viii. p. 76 (1891: 

 Andros Creek) ; Cory, t. c. p. 296 (Bimini Isl., Bahamas), p. 351 

 (Inagua Isl.) ; Scott, Auk, ix. p. 14 (1892 : Jamaica) ; Cory, t. c. 

 p. 48 (Maraguana Isl. ; Watling Isl., Bahamas) ; Dwiyht, t. c. 

 p. 413 (Pennsylvanian Alleghanies) ; Coombs, t. c. p. 204 (Louis- 

 iana) ; Scott, t. c. p. 212 (Florida) ; Attwater, t. c. p. 233 (San 

 Antonio, Texas) ; Cory, t. c. p. 272 (Cuba) ; Cherrie, t. c. p. 329 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica) ; Anthony, t. c. p. 360 (Apache, S.W. New 

 Mexico) ; Irby, Key List Brit. B. 2nd ed. p. 48 (1892) ; White, 

 Auk, x. p. 223 (1893 : Mackinac Isl., Mich.) ; Wayne, t. c. p. 337 

 (Suwanee R.) ; Richm. Pr. U.S. Nat. 31us. xvi. p. 526 (1893: 

 Nicaragua) ; Li/ford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. pt. xxv. (1893) ; Fisher, 

 N. Amer. Faun. no. 7, p. 24 (1893). 



Oxvechus vociferus, Beichenb. Grail, p. xviii, tab. clxxii. figs. 725, 

 726 (1852) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856) ; Gundl. Orn. Cubana, 

 p. 181 (1876) ; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 199 (1880) ; 

 Be/ding, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 351 (1883 : Lower California) ; 

 Nutting, t. c. pp. 379, 390 (Nicaragua) ; Baird, Brewer, fy Ridgw. 

 Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 148 (1884) : Drew, Auk, ii. p. 18 

 (1885 : Colorado) ; Zeledon, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 113 (1885 : 

 Costa Rica) ; Ridgw. t. c. p. 581 (Cozumel Isl.); Wells, op. cit. 

 ix. p. 627 (1886 : Grenada) ; Cory, Cat.B. West Ind. p. 95 (1892 : 

 Bahamas ; Greater & Lesser Antilles). 



Hiaticula vocifera, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 94 (1854). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts light cinnamon-rufous ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back ; the greater coverts darker 

 brown, with broad white ends, forming a distinct wing-band ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, with white tips, obso- 

 lete on the latter ; quills blackish, fringed with white at the ends, 

 the long primaries white on the inner web, till near the ends, which 

 are blackish brown ; a white mark along the shaft at a short 

 distance from the tip of the first four primaries, the rest of the 

 primaries with a white mark before the end of the outer web ; the 

 secondaries blackish, white at the base, on the inner web, and 

 along the tip, the white increasing on the inner secondaries, till the 

 black decreases to a spot on the outer web, and then disappears 

 altogether on the interior quills ; long innermost secondaries like 

 the back, the outer ones light ashy brown, dark brown along the 

 outer web, the tip of which is white ; centre tail-feathers light 

 brown, tipped with cinnamon-rufous, before which is a broad sub- 

 terminal shade of blackish brown ; outer tail-feathers cinnamon- 

 rufous, broadly tipped with white, with a distinct sub-terminal bar 

 of black ; crown of head dark brown, separated from the mantle by 

 a black collar ; forehead white, separated from the crown by a band 

 of black, which reaches to the middle of the eye ; a broad white 



