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30. Numenius cyanopus \'ieill. Australian Curlew. 



General color brown, much streaked and blotched; coloring of 

 the rump uniform with the back. Length 21-24, bill 6.8-7.2, wing 

 II. 9-12. 5, tail 4-4.6, tarsus 3.2-3.5. Hab. Breeds in Siberia; 

 winters in Australia, Borneo, Tasmania, and Malay peninsula. 



Genus HETKRACTITIS Stejneger. 



31. Heteractitis brevipes Vieill. Asiatic Wandering 



Tattler. 



Heteractitis brez'ipes. Vieill., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 1.S16, VI., p. 410. 



Totamts Polynesia', Peale, Zool. U. S. Kxp. E-xped., 1S38, B. p. 237. 



Totainis incanus brevipes, Seeb. Geog. Ui-st. of Charad., p. 361. 



Totanus incanus, Wilson, Aves Hawaiien.se.s, p. 151 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., V,, p. 65; Oust., II., 



p. 41. 

 Heteractitis brevipes, Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus,, XXIV., p. 449. 



Specimens of the Wandering Tattler were shot during the" 

 months of June and July. They were ver}- scarce and wild, and 

 consequently hard to take. Their notes and habits .seemed identi- 

 cal with the American form. The upper coloring of the male is a 

 uniform ashy gra}' ; the rump and tail coverts a shade lighter graj', 

 the latter with indications of cross markings near the tips ; pri- 

 mary quills dusk}' , secondaries gray ; tail feathers uniform gray ; 

 crown brown, wnth whitish superciliary stripe which extends to 

 and around the base of the upper mandible ; lores dusk}- ; cheeks 

 grayish ; throat white. In specimen No. 9524 the sides, under 

 neck and breast are grayish, without cross markings of any kind ; 

 the belh", under tail coverts, and flanks are pure white ; sides 

 grayi.sh. In No. 9525 the under neck, breast, sides, flanks and 

 lower belly is profusely spotted and barred wnth dusky gray. 

 Length 10-10.50, wing 6-6.20, tail 2.73-2.75, tarsus 1.16-1.17, 

 culmen i. 43-1. 45, mid-toe and claw 1.16. Hab. From eastern 

 Siberia and Kamchatka, through Japan and China to Malaj-an 

 archipelago, Papuan Islands, Marianas and Australia. 



Family CHARADRIID^.— Plovers. 



a'. Wings less than 8, plumage without metallic tint, head 

 without cre.st. Genus Charadrius. 



b'. Axillars black. Charadrius sqtiatarola . 



b". Axillars smoky gray, or ash gray. Charadrius fiilvus. 



b\ Axillars white, length 7. Charadrius luongolicus. 



Genus CHARADRIUS Linn. 



32. Charadrius squatarola ( Linn .) . Black-bellied Plover. 



General color black, upper parts irregularly spotted with dusky 

 and whitish, except on the forehead and a line which is pure white 

 to the sides of the breast ; in winter the lower parts are white.. 



