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the base of the culmen. 
primaries with white area along their outer 
webs; the secondaries and greater coverts 
tipped with white. Tail-feathers like the 
back, tipped with white, and successively 
paler laterally, till the outermost are nearly 
white; upper tail-coverts also tipped with 
whitish. Bill and feet black. The young 
lack the distinctive chestnut and black mark- 
ings, though the breast may be somewhat 
suffused with pale cinnamon, and at an early 
age all the feathers of the upper parts have 
pale edgings. Wing 5.25; tail 2.25; bill 
0.70; tarsus 1.15; middle toe 0.75. <A well- 
known species of wide distribution in the 
Old World, recorded from Choris Peninsula- 
Alaska. (See Ibis, 1870, p. 384; P. Z.S 
1871, pp. 111, 114.) Itis entirely different 
from any other plover described in this work, and should long ago have been taken into 
the Key. 
COUES KEY, 1884. 
Podasocys montanus. 
Vanellus cristatus. 
Aphriza virgata. 
502. 
593. 
594. 
o95. 
596. 
Hematopus ostrilegus. 
palliatus. 
597. niger. 
598. Strepsilas interpres. 
599. melanocephalus. 
600. Recurvirostra americana. 
601. Himantopus mexicanus. 
602. Steganopus wilsoni. 
603. Lobipes hyperboreus. 
604. Phalaropus fulicarius. 
605. Philohela minor. 
606. Scolopax rusticula. 
607. Gallinago media. 
608. wilsoni. 
509. Macrorhamphus griseus. 
610. scolopaceus. 
611. Micropalama himantopus. 
612. Ereunetes pusillus. 
615. pusillus occidentalis. 
614. Actodromas minutilla. 
Wing-feathers dusky; shaft of first primary white; several inner 
a eed ei 
Z 
= Se 
Fig. 562. — Mongolian Paver, 
2 6 
UNION LIST, 1886. 
281. gialitis montana. 
[269.] Vanellus vanellus. 
282. Aphriza virgata. 
(285. | Heematopus ostralegus. 
286. palliatus. 
287. bachmani. 
283. Arenaria interpres. 
284. melanocephala. 
225. Recurvirostra americana. 
Himantopus mexicanus. 
Phalaropus tricolor, 
lobatus. 
. Crymophilus fulicarius. 
. Philohela minor. 
4 Scolopax rusticola. 
Gallinago gallinago. 
delicata. 
. Macrorhamphus griseus. 
32. scolopaceus. 
. Micropalama himantopus. 
. Ereunetes pusillus. 
247. occidentalis. 
2. Tringa minutilla. 
. {Not admitted in the List. | 
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PSeENDNAES 
614 bis. Add: Tringa damascensis. DAMASCENE SANDPIPER. LONG-TOED STINT. 
Resembling the last in coloration. Shaft of first primary only, white. Middle toe and claw 
longer than tarsus or culmen; tips of outstretched toes reaching far beyond end of tail, and 
tip of tail beyond points of the folded wings; four outer pairs of tail-feathers of equal 
