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crimson ; legs and feet (in lite) piirplisli red. Wing, 9.80-10.25 ; culmen, 2.85-3.50 ; 

 tarsus, L'.(K)-2.2() ; middle toe, 1.20-1.40. Hah. Palsearctic region, New Zealand, etc. 

 2. H. palliatus. Rump brownish slate, like back and wings ; iris bright yellow ; legs and 

 feet (lull (lesliy white or pale dull flesh-color. Youmj : Top and .sides ol' head speckled 

 with ])ale brown; feathers of upper parts broadly margined with dull l>ufl'; bill lirownish; 

 iris brown. Doimiy young : Above, light brownish gray, faintly mottled with dusky, and 

 marked with two irregular black stripes down the back and one along each side ; a 

 post-ocular black streak ; lower parts, except foreneck, white. Wing, 9.75-11.00 ; cul- 

 men, .3.00-;5.70 ; tarsus, 2.05-2.5.5 ; middle toe, 1.20-1.55. Ilah. Coasts of America in 

 general, e.xcept Pacific coast north of Lower California. 

 B. riumuije cnlirehj hlachish. 



'A. H. niger. Entire plumage brownish black, more plumbeous on the head and neck. 



n. Wing, 9.()0-10.T5; culmen, 2.50-2.95; greatest depth of bill, forward of nostril, .45-.52; 

 tarsus, 1.85-2.25; middle toe, 1.30-1.65. Hah. Pacific coast of North America. Var. 

 n ifjer. 



h. Wing, 10.25-10.80; culmen, 2.90-3.00; tarsus, 2.20; middle toe, 1,70-1.75; greatest 

 depth of bill anterior to nostril, .(iO. Hah. Pacific coast of South America. Var. ater.^ 



In this species, or race, according to authors, the iris is yellow, eyelids red or orange-red, bill 

 orange-red, and feet flesh-color, or grayish. 



The Hwmatopus leiicopus (Garnot), recognized by Sclater and Salvin {Xomcnclator Ncotropi- 

 calium, p. 143), is a South American species, with which we are unacquainted. Its habitat is 

 Tierra del Fuego. In the adult of this species the bill is red or orange-red, the iris bright yellow 

 or orange, the eyelids yellow or red, the legs and feet flesh-colored or grayish. In the young, the 

 bill is brownish, the iris l)ro■^^Tl, the legs and feet grayish. (Of. Scl. & S.vr.v. P. Z. S. 1878, 437, 

 438 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, 15.) 



1 H.EMATOPUS NIGER .4.TER. 



Hocniatopus ater, Vieill. Gal. Ois. II. 182.5, 88, pi. ccxx. — Cassin", in Haird's B. N. Am. 1858, 

 700. — Bairb, Cat. N. Am. B. ISSfi, no. 514. — Scl. & .Salv. P. Z. S. 1S78, 4.33. — Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, 15. 



Iltnnatopus niga; Cuv. Eeg. An. 1. 1829, 504 (not of Pallas, 18.31). 



ITccmatoims Townscndii, AuD. Orn. Biog. Y. 1839, 247, pi. 427 ; Synop. 1839, 229 ; B. Am. V. 

 1842, 245, pi. 326. 



