

49. HETERACTITIS. 451 



West Isl.) ; Meyer, Sitz. n. Abhandl. Ges. Isis, 1884, Abth. i. 

 p. 66 (Siao) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 477 (Usukan Bay, N. 

 Borneo), p. 065 (Waigiou); Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 

 (1888: Gulf of Carpentaria ; Cape York ; Rockingham Bay ; Port 

 Denison ; Wide Bay district ; Richmond and Clarence River 

 district ; N. S. Wales) ; Vbrderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. hid. 

 xlix. p. 416 (1889: Sumatra); North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 (2) iii. p. 1778 (1889: Cumberland, N. S. W.) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1890, 

 p 104 (Bonin Isl.) ; id. B. Japan. Emp. p. 323 (1890) ; Styan, 

 Ibis, 1891, pp. 331, 507 (Lower Yangtze) ; Be La Tuuche, Pois, 

 1892, p. 500 (Foochow; Swatow) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1894, p. 31 (Santa 

 Cruz Isl., Solomons). 



•Gambetta pulverulentus, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 208 (1865 : 

 Port Essiugton) ; Ramsay, Proc Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 297 

 (1879 : East Cape, S.E. New Guinea), iv. p. 102 (1879). 



Actitis incana, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 15 (Duke of York Isl.). 



Ileteroscelus incanus (nee Gm.), Boyd. Consp. Av. Imp. Boss. i. p. 98 

 (1884) ; Heine $ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 327 (1890 : 

 Kamtchatka; Java; Timor). 



Heteractitis brevipes, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 137 

 (1885) ; Salvad. § Giyl. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 586 (Olga Bay, Sept. ; Port 

 Lazareff, Aug.; Gensan, Aug.) ; iid. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Torino, 

 (2) xxxix. p. 115 (1888) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) x. p. 827 

 (1891 : Killerton Isl.) j id. Ayy. Om. Papuasia, iii. p. 202 (1891). 



Totauus incanus brevipes, Seebokm, Geoyr. Distr. Charadr. p. 361 

 (1887) ; id. Ibis, 1890. p. 104 (Peel Isl., Bonin group, June) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1891, p. 191 (Volcano Islands). 



Ileteroscelus brevipes, Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. (7) 

 xxxix. p. 877 (1893: Darasun; Kamtchatka; Ussuri River). 



Heteractitis incanus brevipes, Nikolshi, Faun. Sakhal. p. 265. 



Adult male in tvmter plumage. General colour above uniform 

 ashy grey, with slightly indicated light ashy margins ; scapulars 

 like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts purer grey 

 than the back, with distinct whitish edges ; the long upper tail- 

 coverts with sub-terminal dusky bars ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 with paler margins, the greater series margined with white ; 

 primary-coverts and quills blackish, externally washed with ashy 

 and fringed with white, the inner secondaries ashy grey like the 

 back, fringed with whitish ; tail-feathers uniform ashy, with narrow 

 whitish margins ; head and neck like the back ; base of forehead 

 and a large supra-loral spot white, extending in a narrow streak 

 above the eye ; lores blackish ; sides of face and ear-coverts white, 

 the upper edge of the latter ashy grey ; cheeks and under surface 

 of body pure white, with a shade of ashy grey over the fore-neck 

 and chest ; sides of breast and flanks also ashy grey, as well as the 

 outer aspect of the thighs ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 grey, fringed with white at the ends ; quills below ashy, lighter 

 along the inner edge: "bill blackish grey, light brownish grey at 

 base of lower mandible ; feet light ochre-yellow, joints with a faint 

 greenish tinge ; iris dark brown " (L. Stejneger). Total length 

 8'8 inches, wing 6*4. 



Adult female in winter plumage* Similar to the male: "bill 

 black, greyish yellow at base ; feet dirty chrome-yellow ; claws 



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