182 NORTH AMI:KICAX JilliDS. 



d\ Back, scapulars, and wing-covcrts (except greater) grayish brown, 

 or brownish shite; upper tail-coverts entirely white in a<lult; 

 under primary co%-erts almost wholly white. Adult: Head 

 and neck plumbeous-black ; bill bright red (in life). You)tg : 

 Head and neck dull blackish, the top of the former speckled 

 •with pale brown ; feathers of upper parts bordered with dull 

 buff; bill brownish. Downy young : Head and neck dull light 

 grayish, finely mottled with darker, and with a narrow line of 

 black behijid eye ; rest of upper parts light fulvous-gray, finely 

 mottled with darker, and relieved b^' two narrow stripes of 

 black along the back; lower parts white. Length 17.00-21.00, 

 •wing 9.80-10.25, culmen 2.85-3.50, greatest depth of bill for- 

 ward of nostril .48-55, tarsus 2.05-2.55, middle toe (without 

 claw) 1.20-1.55. Eggs 2-3, 2.21 X 1-58, light dull creamy hufl; 

 spotted with black, dark brown, and purplish gray. llab. 

 Coasts of America, from Nova Scotia and southern California 

 to southern Brazil and Chili. 



28G. H. palliatus Temm. American Oyster-catcher. 



d'. Back, scapulars, and wingcoverts sooty black ; shorter upper 



tail-coverts entirely black, the longer ones varied with black at 



ends ; under primary coverts chiefly black ; wing 10.00, culmen 



3.12-3.42, greatest depth of bill forward of nostril .50, tarsus 



2.12-2.20, middle toe, without claw-, 1.G5. Hab. Galapagos 



Islands. 



(iO.) H. galapagensis Ridqw. Galapagos Oyster-catcher.' 



c'. Breast uniform black ; bill very slender, its greatest depth forward of 



nostril not exceeding .40 of an inch ; middle toe, with claw, much 



less than 1.75. 



Adult : Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts (except greater) sooty 



black, with faint greenish gloss ; upper tail-coverts (except 



shorter median ones), entirely white ; nearly all the under 



■wing-coverts uniform black; wing 10.00-10.60, culmen 3.00- 



3.05, greatest depth of bill forward of nostril .38-.40, tarsus 



1.75-L95, middle too 1.20-1.30. Hab. Tierra del Fuego. 



H. leucopodus Cauxot. White-footed Oyster-catcher.' 

 «'. Plumage entirely blackish. 



Adult : Uniform brownish black, or dark soot}' brown, the head and neck 

 plumbeons-black. Young : General color more brownish, manj- of the 

 feathers (especially wing-coverts and scapulars) having paler (dull butf 

 or rusty) tips. 

 b\ Length 17.00-17.50. wing 9.(50-10.75, culmen 2.50-2.95, greatest depth of bill 

 forward of nostril .45-.52, tarsus 1.85-2.25, middle toe 1.30-1. G5. Eggs 

 2.18 X 1-52, light olive-buff or buff'y olive, speckled or sparsely spotted 



I' Hmnatnpns galiipngentlii Rinow., Auk, iii. July, 1886, 331. 

 ' Hxmaloput lcuco]>odu8 Garsot, Anu. ilcs Sc. Nat. vii., l?2ft, 47. 



