486 charadeiidjE. 



(1888 : Australia generally) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital., 1st Resoc. p. 605 

 (1889), 2nd Resoc. p. 662 (1890), 3rd Resoc. p. 517 (1891) ; 

 Reichen. JB. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. x. p. 7 (1893 : Quilimane). 



Totanus nebulariu9 glottoides, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 

 p. 128 (1885). 



Totanus sp., Bohm, J.f. O. 1885, p. 51 (Gondah). 



Totanus littoreus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 266 (Quilimane ; Zanzi- 

 bar) ; id. Syst. Verz. Yog. Deutschl. p. 48 (1889) ; Brusina, 

 Motr. etc. [Orn. Croatica), p. 90 (1890) ; Reichen. J.f O. 1890, 

 p. 109 (Cameroons), 1892, p. 9 (Bukoba) ; Fleck, J.f O. 1894, 

 p. 383 (Walvisch Bay) ; Sjbstedt, MT. deutsch. Schutz. viii. p. 13 

 (1895: Cameroons; Reiser, Orn. Balcanica, p. 167 (1894). 



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

 mottled with whitish edges to the feathers, which are freckled 

 and sub-terminally lined with darker brown, the shaft being also 

 well marked ; scapulars clearer ashy-grey, with an interrupted sub- 

 terminal line of blackish brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts pure white ; exterior wing-coverts uniform blackish brown; 

 median and greater coverts lighter brown, fringed with white ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the latter fringed 

 with white at the end of the inner web ; the secondaries ashy-brown, 

 edged with white, the innermost long secondaries spotted with black 

 on the margins ; tail-feathers white, the centre ones crossed with 

 regular but somewhat interrupted bars of brown, the other feathers 

 with a few broken spots and bars of brown on the outer web ; crown 

 of head and hind-neck greyish brown, the feathers edged with white, 

 imparting a streaked appearance, more marked on the head ; forehead, 

 lores, and sides of face pure white, the sides of the neck streaked 

 narrowly with ashy-brown, as well as the upper margin of the 

 ear-coverts ; entire under surface of body pure white ; the sides 

 of the upper breast irregularly freckled with brown ; under wing- 

 coverts white, with a sub-terminal bar of brown, or a central 

 arrow-head line of the latter colour ; axillaries white, with a few 

 remains of brown spots ; lower primary-coverts ashy, with whitish 

 edgings ; quills below ashy, the lateral markings of the second- 

 aries indicated below : " bill and feet light slate-colour ; iris dark 

 brown " (T. Ayres). Total length 13 inches, culmen 2-2, wing 7'2, 

 tail 2-85, tarsus 2-15. 



Adult male in breedinfj-plumacje. Of a more ruddy-brown than 

 in the winter plumage and with black centres to the feathers of 

 the upper surface ; the head and neck also streaked with black ; 

 sides of face white, narrowly streaked with black ; under surface 

 of body white, the lower throat, fore-neck, and chest with 

 numerous ovate spots of black ; the flanks with a few irregular bars 

 of black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white barred with 

 black, the bars on the latter somewhat interrupted ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts white, the lateral coverts barred with 

 black ; two centre tail-feathers ashy grey, slightly freckled with 

 dusk}', and notched with black on the margins ; remainder of the 

 tail-feathers white barred with blackish, the bars becoming more 

 irregular on the lateral feathers, which have distinct bars only on 



