BIRDS—SCOLOPACIDAE—-RHYACOPHILUS SOLITARIUS. 733 
List of specimens. 
Catal. |Sex. Locality. When collected Whence obtained. Collected by— Length. | Stretch | Wing. 
No. | of wing. 
1490 | o | Carlisle, Pa ------- Mave O motel Pats Dans. aocccmss.o|-seameesenasscuses! 10.80 | 19.75 6. 32 
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(Ait A= es d0ssssassece Sept. 9, 1842 |...--- teeen sea emcee| sae Saas enae eae 10.50 | 19.50 | 5.50 
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RHYACOPHILUS, Kaup. 
» Rhyacophilus, Kavr, Sk. Entw. Europ. Th. 1829. Type Vringa glareola, L. (Gray.) 
Cu.—Bill slender, but widening a little towards the end; lateral grooves of both mandibles extending to the middle of bill; 
nostril short; feathers on side of bill extending to about the same point and as far as beginning of nostrils; those of chin as far 
as their end; both mandibles curved upwards slightly from middle; legs short; bill about the length of tarsus, which is equal 
to middle toe; bare portion of tibia about two-thirds the toes. Tail about opposite the middle of toes when outstretched. 
RHYACOPHILUS SOLITARIUS, (Wils.) Bon. 
Solitary Sandpiper. 
Tringa ochropus, var. A, Laruam, Ind, Orn. 1790. 
Tringa solitaria, Witson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 53; pl. lviii. 
Totanus solitarius, Aup, Syn, 1839, 242.—Is. Birds Am. V, 1842, 309; pl. 343. 
Totanus chloropygius, Vizio, Nouv. Dict. VI, 1816, 401.—Bon. Obs. 1825, No, 210.—Sw. F. B. Am. IT, 1831, 393.— 
Wacter, Isis, 1831,521.—Nurratt, II, 159.—Aun. Orn. Biog. III, 1835, 576: V, 583; pl. 239.— 
Gosse, Birds Jam. 1847, 35]. 
Rhyncophilus chloropygius, Box. Comptes Rendus, Sept. 1856. 
Totanus glareola, Orv, ed. Wils, VII, 1825, 57. 
Totanus macroptera, Spix, Av. Bras. I, 1825, 76; pl. xcii. 
Sp. Cx.—Bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender, compressed; both mandibles with narrow grooves; wing long, 
pointed; tail medium or rather short, rounded; legs rather long, slender; lower half of the tibia naked; toes long, the outer united 
to the middle by a small membrane, flattened underneath, marginated. Upper parts greenish brown, with numerous small 
circular and irregular spots of ashy white ; upper tail coverts darker. Under parts white ; breast and neck before with numerous 
longitudinal lines of greenish brown; sides, axillaries, and under wing coverts white, with numerous transverse narrow bands of 
dark greenish brown; under tail coverts white, with a few transverse bands of dark brown. Quills brownish black, with a slight 
bronzed or reddish lustre on the primaries; two middle feathers of the tail greenish brown; other ASE of the tail pure 
white, with about five transverse bands of brownish black. Bill and legs dark greenish brown. 
Total length, about 8 to 84 inches; wing, 5; tail, 24; bill, 14; tarsus, 14 inches. 
Hab.—Entire temperate regions of North America; Mexico. 
Like the preceding, this bird is extensively diffused, specimens in the collections of the 
expeditions being from widely distant localities, 
