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fuscous. Legs and feet white; claws yellowish-horn color; 

 eyelids bright red ; irides yellow. Length about 17 inches. 



This fine species was shot near Puget's sound, by my friend 

 William Fraser Tolmie, Esq., surgeon of the Honorable Hud- 

 son's Bay Company, by whom it was presented to me. I was 

 anxious to give to it the name of its discoverer, but I have 

 been overruled by Mr. Audubon, who has probably had good 

 reasons for rejecting my proposed specific appellation, TolmicL 

 Rocky Mountain Plovkr. 



Charadrius *montanvs, (Townsend.) Journal Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, Vol. 7, part IL, p. 192. Audubon's Birds of America, 

 Vol. IV., pi. 3.50. Male. 



Bill and lores black ; front white, this color being continued 

 in a narrow line over the eye to the nape ; head-brownish-cine- 

 reous ; back of the neck, and cheeks behind the eye, yellowish- 

 tawney ; whole upper parts yellowish-cinereous, varied with a 

 darker tint ; wings ligJiter, the shoulders and flexura whitish ; 

 nearly all the secondaries, and some of the primaries, edged with 

 white ; upper tail-coverts, and even tail, brownish-cinereous, the 

 latter tipped with white ; legs and feet yellowish-dusky ; claws 

 black. Irides dark hazel. Length 85 inches. 



Inhabits the table land of the Rocky Mountains. I saw but 

 one specimen of this beautiful bird, and, as our party was on the 

 move, I was compelled to kill it without delay. 



Townsend's Sandpipek. 



*Frinca *Toionsendi, (Audubon.) Birds of America, Vol. IV., 

 pi. 428. Female. 



Bill yellowish-brown, black at the point; a white line below 

 the eye ; whole upper parts dark ashy-cinereous, the secondaries 

 centred with blackish ; rump blackish ; upper tail-coverts pure 

 white ; tail blackish-brown, of ten feathers, the four lateral ones 

 white from their insertion half way to the points, and each tipped 

 with white ; greater wing-coverts, and bases of all the primaries, 

 white, forming a spot upon the wing when closed ; throat white ; 

 breast grayish-cinereous ; under surface of the wings white ; 

 belly, vent, and lower tail-coverts white ; a kw oblong black 

 spots, chiefly on the sides, and lower-coverts ; legs and feet 

 greenish ; claws black. Irides dark hazel. Length 10^ inches. 



