52. PSEUDOGLOTTIS. 479 



52. PSEUDOGLOTTIS. 



Type. 



Pseudototanus, Hume, Str. F. vi. p. 488 (1878) P. guttifer. 



Pseudoglottis, Stejn. Zeitsch.ges. Urn. i. p. 223 (1884) . . P. guttifer. 



Range. North-eastern Asia, ranging south in winter to the 

 Burmese provinces and the neighbourhood of Calcutta. 



1. Pseudoglottis guttifer. 



Totanus guttifer, Nordm. in Ermans lleis. um die JBrde, p. 17 

 (1835). 



Xenus guttifer, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Hem/, p. 91 (1854). 



Terekia guttifera, Bp. V. 11. xliii. p. 597 (185G). 



Totauus haughtoni, Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 344 (China Ba-Keer, 

 Dec.) ; Hume $" Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 403 (1878) ; Halting, Ibis, 

 i883, p. 133, pi. iv. 



Pseudototanus haughtoni, Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 488 (1878 : Cal- 

 cutta) : id. Str. F. ix. p. 113 (1879); id. fy Marsh. Game Birds 

 2nd. iii. p. 403, cum tab. (1880). 



Pseudototanus guttifer, Stejn. Zeitschr. ges Orn. i. p. 223, pi. x. 

 (1884); id. Orn. Expl. Kamtseh., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mas. no. 29, 

 p. 124 (1885: Bering IaL, May ; Aratscha River, Kamtschatka). 



Totauus guttiferus, Seeb. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 354 (1888) ; 

 Styan, Ibis, 1894, p. 337 (Hainan). 



Adult female in winter plumage (type of T. haughtoni). General 

 colour above ashy grey, the feathers with blackish shaft-lines and 

 narrow whitish margins ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 pure white ; wing-coverts a little darker than the back, especially the 

 marginal series and the outer median and greater coverts ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and primaries dark browr, the secondaries 

 ashy and fringed with white like the inner primaries, the inner 

 secondaries whitish on the inner webs ; centre tail-feathers light 

 ashy grey, the remainder white, with a sub-terminal dusky line ; 

 crown of head and neck ashy grey, with dusky streaks ; base of 

 forehead and lores, as well as the sides of the face and under surface 

 of body, pure white, the sides of the neck shaded with ashv and having 

 minute dusky streaks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white : 

 " basal half of bill horny yellow, deepening into dusky for the terminal 

 half, which is tipped with black ; feet ochreous yellow, claws black ; 

 iris dark brown " (J. Armstrone/). Total length 12 inches, culmen 

 1-9, wing 6-9, tail 2-4, tarsus 1*6. 



Adult male in winter plumage. Does not differ from the female 

 in any important particular : " basal half of both mandibles greenish 

 plumbeous, somewhat yellowish near the gape; terminal half dusky 

 black; feet greenish ochreous yellow, somewhat dusky over the 

 phalangeal joints : claws black ; gape slaty pinkish white : iris dark 

 brown" (./. Armstrong). Total length 12'5 inches, culmen 2\3, 

 wing 7, tail 2-4. tarsus l - 75. 



Young. Resemble the winter plumage of the adults, but are 

 easily distinguished by the Bandy-bufi spotting of the back and 



