47. TOTANUS. 409 



u'-d". Ad. et Cozumel Island (G.F.Gaumer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



imm. ak. 



e". Imm.sk. Ohiapam, Guatemala (O. &.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



J". Ad. sk. San Jose, Guatemala, Jan. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(O. s.\ 



g" . c? ad. sk. San Pedro, Honduras (G. M. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Whitdy). 

 h". Ad.sk. Grenada, West Indies, Aug. 30 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(JD. W. Smith). 

 i". Ad. sk/ British Guiana. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



47. TOTANUS. 



Type. 



Totanus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenh. ii. p. 282 (1803) T. calidns. 



Gambeita (nee Koch), Kaup, Nat. Si/st. p. 54 (1829) .... T. calidri9. 



Erythroscelis, Kaup, torn. cit. p. 54 (1829) T. calidris. 



./Egialodes, Heine, i?i Heine Sf Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. 



Hein. p. 327 (1890) T. calidris. 



Range. Almost cosmopolitan. 



Key to the Species. 



. Lower back and rump white ; upper tail-coverts 

 barred. 



a'. Largest : culmen 23-2 - 4 inches, wing 6 - 2o- 

 6*45 inches ; secondaries regularly barred 

 with white and dusky blackish, none of them 

 entirely white ; tail-feathers all barred .... fuscus, p. 409. 



b'. Of moderate size : culmen 1/55 inch, wing 5 - 85 

 inches; inner secondaries for the most part 

 white or with dusky bases, not barred ; tail- 

 feathers narrowly banded calidris, p. 413. 



c'. Smallest: culmen l - 5 inch, wing 5'2 inches ; 

 inner secondaries brown with a little white 

 on the inner web, no bars ; centre tail- 

 feathers barred, outer ones white, freckled 

 with brown on the outer web, but with no 

 bars staynatilvi, p. 422. 



Lower back and rump dusky brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, the longer ones banded. 



d'. Larger: culmen 245 inches, wing 7-3 inches, melanoleucus, p. 426. 



e'. Smaller: culmen 14-1 '46 inch, wing 6'4-6-7 



inches jiavipes, p. 431. 



1 . Totanus fuscus. 



The Spotted Redshank. 



La Barge brune, Brim. Orn. v. p. 276, pi. xxiii. fig. 2 (1760) ; 



D'Aubent. PI. Enl. viii. pi. 875; Buff. Hist. Nat Ois. vii. p. 508 



(1780). 

 Scolopax fosca, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 243 (1766 : nee Scolopax 



fusna, ed. x.=Tantalus fuscus) ; Gm. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 657 (1788). 

 Scolopax maculata, Tunstail, Om. Brit. p. 3 (1771). 

 Scolopax atra, Sander, Naturf. xiii. p. 193 (1779). 

 Cambridge Godwit, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 146 (1786"). 



