488 ADDENDA 



SPECIES TO BE ADDED 1 

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FAMILY RYHNCHOPIDJE : SKIMMERS. 



GENUS RHYNCHOPS 

 80. Rhynchops nigra Linn. BLACK SKIMMER. 



Bill with lower mandible much longer than the upper, both mandibles 

 like knife-blades; basal half of bill, legs, and feet red in life. Adults in 

 summer. Forehead, sides of head and under parts white; upper parts 

 black; tail mainly white. Adults in winter. Similar, but with white 

 collar across hind neck. Young: above buff, spotted with black; below, 

 white. Length: 17-20, wing 14.75-15.75, tail 5.50 (forked) ; culmen 2.20- 

 2.80, lower mandible 2.90-4.10. 



95.1. Puffinus carneipes Gould. PALE-FOOTED SHEARWATER. 



Adults. Dark sooty brown, nearly uniform, slightly paler beneath 

 and grayer on the throat; under wing coverts and axillaries uniform 

 sooty-brown; bill flesh color with tip horn; tarsi and toes flesh color. 

 Length: about 19.5, wing 12.5, central tail feathers 4.3, lateral 3.65, 

 tarsus 2.25. 

 126. Pelecanus occidentalis Linn. BROWN PELICAN. 



Similar to californicus, but with pouch always greenish. Length: about 

 4-4J feet, wing 18.50-21, bill, 9.40-12.20. 

 133. Anas rubripes Brewst. BLACK DUCK. 



Like female mallard but darker. 

 160. Somateria dresseri Sharpe. EIDER. 



Bill divided by wedge of feathers. Male: black and white with green 

 on head. Females and young: plumage barred with dusky and fulvous 

 or rusty, head and neck streaked. Length: about 20-26. 

 1733. Branta bernicla glaucogastra (Brehm). BRANT. 



Like nigricans, but black of neck well defined against lower parts: belly 

 white. 



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FAMILY FLATALEIDJE: SPOONBILLS. 



GENUS AJAIA 

 183. Ajaia ajaja (Linn.}. ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 



Bill wide and flat, head naked, skin black, orange around eyes, neck 

 scantily feathered, a slight crest on lower neck, toes long and slightly 

 webbed at base. Plumage pale pink becoming white on shoulders and 

 neck, with glossy red lesser wing coverts and upper tail coverts. Length: 

 28-35, wing 14.10-15.30, bill 6.20-7.15, greatest width of bill 2-2.20. 



208. Rallus elegans Aud. KING RAIL. 



Similar to virginianus but much larger. Length: 17-19, wing 5.90-6.80, 

 bill 2.12-2.50, tarsus 2.10-2.40. 

 235a. Arquatella maritima couesi Ridgw. ALEUTIAN SANDPIPER. 



Bill little longer than head, much longer than tarsus; feathers on tibia 

 long. Adults in summer. Upper parts fuliginous slaty, marked with 

 ochraceous and cinnamon on crown, back, and scapulars ; conspicuous white 

 wing-bar and whitish superciliary stripe; throat and breast whitish with 

 dark spots; belly white. Adults in winter. Above smoky plumbeous, 

 marked with purplish over the shoulders; throat and breast plumbeous 

 marked with white. Young: scapulars and interscapulars black, marked 

 with rusty and whitish; breast pale buff , streaked with dusky. Wing: 

 4.50-5.15, bill .98-1.25, tarsus .88-1.00. 

 258. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus (GmeL). WILLET. 



Like inornatus but lighter and with bill slenderer. 



1 For ranges see Revised Ranges of Western Birds, pp. 491-537. 



