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U. S. p. E. K. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGy — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



Caml. 



No. 



441 

 1481 

 1178 



89ai 



4866 

 8993 

 6994 

 5438 

 5437 

 8203 

 S737 

 5099 

 10433 

 6648 

 6649 



Sei. 



Locality. 



Wlien col- 

 lected. 



Carli:5le, Pa. 

 do 



.do. 



.do. 



Upper Missouri and Yel- 

 lowstone rivers. 



Omaha Ci«,Neb 



Sand Hills, Neb 



.do. 



Fort Union, Neb 



do 



Little Blue river, K. T. . 



Pole creek, Neb 



Oalifurnia Spring, Tex .. , 



ForlTcjon, Cal 



Fort Steilacooni, W. T., , 

 do 



April 

 Aug. 

 May 

 Sept. 



22, 16-14 



24,18-11 



8, J 844 



8, 1843 



April 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 



2e, 1856 



S 



10 



July, 

 July 

 July 

 April 



1856. . . . 

 22, 1856 

 29,1856 

 29, 1855 



1856 . 



May 



6,1850 



Whence obtained. 



S. F. Baird . 

 do.... 



do 



Lieut. Warren.. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



.do. 



do 



do 



\Yni. Magraw 



Lieut. Bryan 



Captain Pope 



J. Xantus de Vesey . 



Dr. Buckley 



Gov. Stevens 



Orig. 



No. 



Collected by — 



Dr. Uayden.. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



.do.. 



do 



do 



Dr. Cooper . 

 W. S. Wood . 



Dr. Suckley- 



Length. 



Stretch 

 ol wings 



8.80 



16.50 



8.64 16.40 

 8.50 16.00 

 9.00 17.00 



9.00 



8.00 

 8.25 



8.50 

 9.00 



9.00 



17.00 



16.25 

 15.75 



15.75 



17.00 



Wing. 



5.24 



5.32 



5.30 

 5.25 



5.12 

 6.00 



6.25 

 5.50 



Iris brown. 



HETEROSCELUS, Baird. 



Cg 3111 longer than the head cr the tarsus, stout, much compressed. Commissure straight to near the tip, where it is gently 



decurved. The culmen is slightly concave about the middle. Nasal groove extending over the basal two-thirds of t£e bill. 

 Mouth moderately cleft; gape extending nearly the length of the nostrils behind the base of culmen. Legs short. Tarsus about 

 equal to middle toe, and about 2i times the length of exposed tibia; covered anteriorly by narrow transverse scutellae, laterally 

 and behind by hexagonal scales. Scales of tibia hexagonal. Outer and middle toe connected by a basal web as far as the first 

 joint of the latter ; a rudimentary web to the inner toe. Hind toe long ; one-third the tarsus. Tail half the wings. Plumage 

 perfectly uniform above, without spots or bauds of any kind. 



This very remarkable sandpiper diifers, in the hexagonal scutellation of the tibia and on the 

 posterior face of the tarsus, from any other of the Totaneae, and on this account should, with all 

 propriety, be made the type of a distinct group. The bill is stronger than in any American 

 genus, except Symphemia, differing mainly from this in the straightness of the bill and greater 

 amount of inflection of the edges. The nasal groove extends further forward, and the upper 

 jaw is a little more decurved at the end. The gape is a little more deeply cleft. The legs, 

 especially the tarsi, are much shorter ; the inner toe only slightly webbed. The claws are 

 short, stout, and unusually curved. The legs have a much roughened appearance. 



HETEKOSCELUS BREVIPES, (Vie ill.) Baird. 



"Wandering Tatler. 



Tringa glarcola, Pai.las, Zoog. Ross.-As. II, 1811, 194. 



Totanua bra-ijies, Vikill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 410.— Cassin, Pr. A. N. So. VUI, 1856, 40. 



Scdopax undidata, Forster, Desc. An. 1844, 173. 



Totanus oceanicus, Lesson, Comp. Buff. 1847, 244. 



Tutanm poltjnasiite, Peale, Voy. Yincennes & Peacock, Birds, 1848, 237. 



lUanus/uliginoius, Gould, Voy. Beagle, Birds, 1841, 130. 



? Totanus pulvendentus, Mlller, Verb. 1644, 153. » 



Figures.— Pallas, Zoog. Ross.-As. II, pi. 60.— Temm. & ScHLG. Faun. Japon. Birds, pi. 65?— Graj, Genera, III, pi. 154 7 

 Sp. CnP-Rather larger than T. flavipes. Bill rather longer Chan the head ; wings long ; legs shorter than usual in this group ; 



