7G. ROSTRATtTLA. 691 



Tringa atricapilla, Vieill N. Dirt. (TTIist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 474 (1819, 

 ex Azara) ; id. Erie. Meth. iii. p. 1090 (1823). 



Rhynchaea hilarea, Valeric; Cuv. Ithjne Anim. i. p. 524 (1829); 

 Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 557, pi. 102. fig. 1 (18.31); id. III. Zool. 

 pi. 18 (1831); Tschudi $ ('ah. Faun. Peruan., Aves, pp.52, 300 

 (1845-40) ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxxi. figs. 550-51 (1850); Licht. 

 Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 93 (1854 : Montevideo). 



Rhynchaea occidentals, King, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 94 (1829). 



Rhynchaea senhcollaris, Gould in Darwin's Voy. ' Beat/It] Birds, 

 p. 131(1841: Rio Plata); Fraser, P.Z.S. 1843, p. 118 (Chili); 

 Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 109 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 585 

 (1840); Hart I. Ind. Azara, p. 25 (1847); Gay, Faun. Chili, 

 Zool. i. p. 429 (1847) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856) ; Sehl. Mus. 

 Pays-Bus, Scolopnees, p. 18 (1864); Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 339 

 (Chili); id. # Hah. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144 (Conchitas) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 55, no. 10359 (1871) ; Scl. $ Sa/r. Nomencl. Av. 

 Neotr. p. 145 (1873) ; Darn}. Ibis, 1877, p. 42 (Pata-onia), 

 p. 199 (Puenos Avres), 1878, p. 403 (Central Patagonia) ; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 16 (Cocpiimbo) ; Solum, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 608 

 (1882: Valparaiso) ; id. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 420 (Chili) ; Barrows, 

 Avk,\. *>. 314 (1884: Lower Uruguay) ; Withinyt.on, Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 472 (Lomas de Zaniora) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 378 (1886); 

 Berl. J.f. O. 1887, p. 126 (Paraguay) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. 

 Charadr.y. 450, pi. xix. (1888); Scl. § Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. 

 p. 182 (1889); Oust. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Ois. p. 293 (1891); 

 Holland, Ibis, 1891, pp. 16,20, 1892, p. 211 (Argentine Republic) ; 

 James, New List Chilian B. p. 12 (1892). 



Rhynchaea hilaerea, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 378 (1856). 



Rhynchaea hilarii, Burm. Iieise La Plata-St. ii. p. 504 (1861 : Rio 

 Parana). 



Rhynchaea curvirostris, Licht. teste Tacz. Orn. Pei-ou, iii. p. 378 

 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above sooty brown, uniform on the 

 hind-neck, but freckled with grey on the upper back and scapulars, 

 the latter having sub-terminal blotches of black with whitish fringes 

 to tbe innermost secondaries, which have a bronzy rufous bar before 

 the end of the feather, the scapulars similarly marked, some of them 

 externally orange-huff along the outer web, forming a broad streak 

 on each side of the back ; lower back and rump earthy brown, with 

 obscure dusky cross-lines, more distinct on the upper tail-coverts, 

 which are more ochreous or sandy buff; wing-coverts blackish 

 brown, with sandy-buff margins ; the median and greater series 

 with large ovate white spots ; parapteral feathers short, black, 

 tipped and barred with white, forming a shoulder-patch ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, with rounded spots of 

 white on the outer web and bars of white on the inner one, all the 

 quills margined with white at the ends ; innermost secondaries like 

 the scapulars, the outer ones ashy barred with dusky brown ; tail- 

 feathers pale buff, with narrow cross-bars of dusky ; on each side of 

 the crown a broad black band, with a broad stripe of ochreous buff 

 along the centre, and a narrow whitish eyebrow, scarcely continuous 

 above the eye ; sides of face, throat, neck, and chest sooty brown, 



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