434 CHAKADRIID^E. 



Colorado, Aug. ; Ogden, Utah, Sept.) ; Tripp?, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. xv. p. 241 (1873 : Iowa) ; Scl. § Salvin, Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 145 ( 1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 310 (Peru) ; Later. 



Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 309 (1874 : Mazatlan) ; id. Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 47 (1875 : Tehuantepec) ; Bumf. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 164 (Buenos Ayres), 1877, p. 199, 1878, p. 404 (Patagonia) ; 



Merrill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 162 (1878: Fort Brown, 



Texas) ; Laicr. t. c. pp. 197, 242, 489 (S. Vincent ; Barbuda) ; 



Belding, t. c. p. 441 (California) ; Tacz. Sf Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, 



pp. 119, 124 (Babahoyo) ; Scl. P. Z.S. 1886, p. 404 (Tarapaca). _ 

 Totanus leucopyga, Illiger, Mus. Berol. ; teste Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. 



p. 645 (1877). 

 ^Egialodes tlavipes, Heine § Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 327 



(1890). 



Adult in winter plumage. General colour above uniform ashy 

 brown, with obsolete white fringes to the feathers ; scapulars like 

 the back; lower back and rump black, the feathers edged -with 

 white ; upper tail-coverts white, the lateral ones with a few irre- 

 gular bars of black ; lesser -wing-coverts blackish, fringed with 

 white ; median and greater coverts brown, rather broadly edged 

 with white, and sub-marginally barred with black in an interrupted 

 manner; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the 

 inner primaries and the secondaries browner, fringed with w T hite ; 

 the long inner secondaries like the greater coverts, and sub-mar- 

 ginally spotted with black ; tail-feathers white, barred with black, 

 the bars more numerous and distinct on the outer webs, though 

 closer together and more broken on the inner webs, which are 

 mostly white for the basal half, the centre feathers ashy towards 

 the ends, with broad dusky bars ; crown of head uniform like the 

 back, or only slightly streaked with blackish ; lores dusky blackish, 

 surmounted by a broad streak of white : eyelid white ; sides of face 

 and ear-coverts brown, streaked with white ; cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface of body white, the throat with hair-like blackisti 

 streaks; sides of neck, fore-neck, and chest ashy brown, with 

 whitish vermiculations, or whitish mottled with ashy brown ; breast 

 and abdomen pure white, freckled with bars and vermiculations of 

 ashy brown on the sides of body and flanks ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts white, the latter with a few bars of blackish ; under wing- 

 coverts white, barred with sub-marginal markings of blackish ; 

 axillaries white, with dusky bars, not very perfect, of brown ; 

 lower primary-coverts and quills below ashy, the former with 

 whitish bars near the end. Total length 9 inches, culmen 145, 

 wing 6-7, tail 2-3, tarsus 2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 9-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-6, wing 6-5, tail 2-2, tarsus 2-25. 



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

 in being mottled with black, the centres to the feathers being 

 black ; median and greater wing-coverts more or less conspicuously 

 barred and notched with black ; centre tail-feathers ashy brown, 

 barred with black, the lateral ones white with less complete blackish 

 bars ; head black, streaked with white ; under surface of body 



