168 NORTH AMERICA X BIRDS. 



1.05. Jlab. Pacific coast of America, from tlie Galapagos and Lower 

 California to Aleutian Islands and 2Jorton Sound, Alaska, and Com- 

 mander Islands, Kamtscbatka ; also, the more eastern Pacific islands 

 (Poraotu group, Marquesas, Tahiti, Tongatahu, Palmyr:A. Samoa. Upolti, 



Fiji, etc.) 250. H. incanus (Gmel.). 'Wandering Tatler. 



a-. Xasal groove (measured from frontal feathers) only about cue-half as long as 

 the exposed culmen ; upper tailcoverts distinctly barred with white. 



Summer adult : Belly and under tail-eovcrts immaculate white, the dark 

 bars of other lower parts narrower than in If. incanus ; otherwise simi- 

 lar to that species, but graj' of a browner shade ; size smaller. Hab. 

 Shores and islands of the western Pacific, from Australia, Borneo, etc., 

 to Kamtscbatka (mainland). 



H. brevipes (Vieill.). Polynesian Tatler.' 



Genus PAVONCELLA Leach. (Page 148, pi. XLIX., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Above varied with black, buff, and gray, the scapulars and tcrtials obliquely 

 barred ; beneath white, varied on chest and throat; inner webs of primaries finely 

 mottled toward base ; three outermost tail-feathers plain, the rest barred ; sides of 

 rump white. Adult male: Colors varj-ing with the individual, scarcely two being 

 alike; the "cape" usually glossy black, ochraceous, or whitish, the "ruff" usually 

 chestnut, glossj- black, buff, whitish, or ochraceous, these colors either plain, 

 streaked, or barred, according to the individual. Adult female: No "ruff" or 

 "cape," and head completely feathered; plumage barred with blackish, buff, white, 

 and rusty, the belly and lower tail-coverts usually immaculate white. Young: 

 Back and scapulars brownish black, the feathers bordered with buff or ochraceous ; 

 top of head ochraceous streaked with black; lower parts plain buffy anteriorly, 

 whitish posteriorly. Length 10.00-12.50, wing 6.40, tail 2.60, culmen 1.25, tarsus 

 1.75, middle toe, with claw, 1.40. Eggs 1.71 X 1-20, light olive or olive-buff, spotted 

 with vandyke-brown or bistre. Hab. More northern portions of eastern hemisphere ; 

 occasional in eastern L^nited States (Maine, Massachusetts, Long Island, Ohio, 

 etc.) 2C0. P. pugnax (Linn.). Ruff, 



Genus BARTRAMIA Le.sso\. (Page 148, pi. LI., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult: Above light brownish, the feathers more ochraceous toward edges, 

 spotted and barred with blackish ; crown blackish, divided b^- a median line of 

 buff; rest of head and neck ochraceous or buffy, streaked with duskj-, except chin 

 and throat, which are plain whitish ; tail-feathers (except middle pair) light buff, 

 broadly tipped with white, marked near ends with a broad black sf)Ot, and, anterior 



• Tntnnim lireripet ViEILL., Nouv. Diet. N. II. vi. 1817, 410. Jlclciaclitit brem'pet Stejn., Orn. E.tpl. 

 Kamt. 188i, 137. 



