GO. PROSOBONIA. 525 



Tringoides cancellata, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 47, no. 10284 (187] ). 

 ./Echmorhynchus parvirostris, Coues, B. N.-West, p. 506 (1874). 

 Phegornis cancellatus, Seebohm, Qeogr, Distr. Charadr. p. 461, pi. 17 



(1888); Wiglesw. Abhandl. k. Mus. Dresd. 1890-91, no. G, p. 60 



(1891). 



" Bill short, straight, and slender ; wings long, first, second, and 

 third quills very nearly equal ; tertiaries but very little longer than 

 the secondaries ; tail rather long, wide, rounded ; legs and toes 

 long, the former robust ; tibia feathered for more than half its length. 

 A distinct stripe over and behind the eye ashy white. Entire 

 upper parts umber-brown, unspotted on the top of the head, but on 

 other upper parts edged and tipped with ashy white and reddish 

 fulvous. Tail-feathers umber-brown, with irregular and imperfect 

 transverse narrow bauds of ashy and pale reddish-white, and tipped 

 with the same. Underparts white, with a tinge of ashy ; throat and 

 middle of the abdomen unspotted ; breast, sides, and under coverts 

 of the tail spotted, and with irregular transverse bars of brown, the 

 latter (bars) most apparent on the sides, flanks, and under coverts 

 of the tail. Iuferior coverts of wing ashy white, irregularly 

 spotted with brown. Bill greenish, darker at the tip ; legs dark 

 green : ' iris dark brown ' (Peale). 



" Sexes very nearly alike, female slightly paler." (Cassin.) 

 Hah. Paumotou Islands ; Christmas Island, Pacific. 



60. PROSOBONIA. 



Type. 

 Prosobonia, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 562 (1850) P. leucoptera. 



Range. Only known from the Society Islands, where it is now 

 probably extinct. 



1. Prosobonia leucoptera. 



Tringa pyrrhetrrea, Forst. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. no. 120 ; Ellis, 



Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. no. 65 ; Forst. Descr. Ariim. p 174 (1844 : 



Otaheiti). 

 White-winged Sandpiper, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. l,p. 172, pi. lxxxii. 



(1785 : Otaheite and Eimeo) ; id. Gen. Hint. B. ix. p. 296, pi. cliii. 



(1824). 

 Tringa leucoptera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 678 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 781 (1790); Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 579 (1845); Reichenb. 



Grail, tab. lxxiii. fig. 610 (1850) ; Hartl. Wieym. Arch. 1852, 



p. 136 (Society Isl.) ; Westerm. Bijdr. Dierk. i. p. 51, tab. 15 



(1854) ; Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 435, tab. 7. fig. 89 (1857). 

 Totanus leucopterus, Vieill. N. Diet. dHist. Nat. vi. p. 396 (1817). 

 Calidris leucopterus, Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 526 (1829). 

 Prosobonia leucoptera, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 562 (1850), xliii. p. 598 



(1856) ; Schl. Mux. I'ays-Bas. Scolopaces, p. 18 (1864: Otaheite); 



id. Dierent. p. 249, cum tig. (1872). 

 Tringa (Prosobonia) leucoptera, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Facijic 



Ocean, p. 51 (1859 : Society Isl.). 

 Tringoides leucopterus, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 46, no. 10282 (1871). 

 Phegornis leucopterus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 452, pi. 18 

 (1888); Wiglesw. Abhandl. k. Mm. Dresd. 1890-91, no. 6, p. 65 

 (1891). 



