40. SYJIP11K.UIA. 407 



Cory, t. c. p. 48 (Maraguana) ; Scott, t. c. p. 212 (Caloosahatchie 



Region). 

 Totaaua semipalmatus, var. speculiferus, Lembeye, Av. Cuba, p. 133 



(1860). 

 Catoptrophorus crassirostris, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 596 (1850). 

 Catoptrophorus speculiferus, Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. 



p. 308 (1860: Cuba). 

 Symphemia speculifera, Scl. Ibis, 1862, p. 199. 

 Symphemia semipalmata inornata, Brewster, Auk, iv. p. 145 (1887) ; 



Beckh. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 637, 642, 653 (1887 : Texas) ; 



Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 585, note (1887) ; Scott, Auk, v. 



p. 185 (1888 : Tarpon Springs), vi. p. 158 (1889) ; Merriam, N. 



Amer. Faun. no. 5, p. 92 (1891: Snake 11., July; Great Salt 



Lake, breeding); Scott, Auk, ix. p. 212 (1892: Caloosahatchie 



Region, Florida); Fisher, N. Amer. Faun. no. 7, pt. 2, p. 23 



(1893 : Morro Bay, California) ; Richn. §■ Knoiolt. Auk, xi. p. 302 



(1894: Montana)" 

 Sympheruia semipalmata typica, Brewster, Auk, iv. p. 146 (1887). 

 Symphemia semipalmata speculifera, Allen, Auk, v. p. 424 (1888). 

 Totanus semipalmatus speculiferus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 359 (1888). 



Adult in winter plumage. General colour above ashy brown, the 

 rump somewhat darker, the feathers with white fringes and sub- 

 terminal dusky bars ; upper tail-coverts white ; wing-coverts ashy 

 brown ; the outermost lesser coverts blackish, fringed with white, 

 the greater coverts vermiculated with dusky brown and with a 

 distinct sub-terminal line of brown; the outer median and greater 

 coverts broadly edged with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and primaries blackish tipped with white, the latter with the basal 

 half white ; secondaries white, the outer ones with a brown mark 

 near the end of the outer web ; the inner secondaries ashy brown 

 like the back, and mottled with blackish markings near the ends ; 

 centre tail-feathers light ashy, with brown barrings near the ends, 

 these markings disappearing on the outer feathers, which are for the 

 most part white ; crown of head and neck uniform ashy, as also 

 the sides of the face, the latter with shaft-lines of darker brown ; a 

 supra-loral streak of white reaching to the fore part of the eye ; 

 fore part of cheeks and entire under surface of body white, with a 

 shade of ashy grey on the sides of the breast ; the fore-neck and 

 chest also slightly freckled with ashy ; the axillarics blackish, fringed 

 with white at the ends ; under wing-coverts blackish, edged with 

 white, those round the bend of the wing white with blackish centres ; 

 lower primary-coverts and quills below black with white bases. 

 Total length 12 inches, culmen 2*4, wing 7"3, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 2-2. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Differs from the winter plumage 

 in having a tinge of ruddy brown over the grey of the upper surface, 

 which is thickly mottled with bars and arrow-head markings of 

 black ; the rump uniform ashy brown ; some of the upper tail- 

 coverts barred with brown, and the centre tail-feathers crossed with 

 black bars ; the head and neck ashy brown, streaked with blackish 

 ceiu res to the feathers ; tho sides of the face, throat, and fore-neck 

 streaked with blackish, the latter also spotted with black ; breast 



