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PR^COCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



cially the tarsi, are much shorter ; the inner toe only slightly webbed. The claws are short, stout, 

 and unusually curved. The legs have a much roughened appearance. 



The single North American species of this genus is one of wide distribution, occurring on the 

 eastern coasts of Asia, and the islands throughout the Paciiic Ocean, as well as along the western 

 shores of North America. 



Heteioscelus incanus. 



THE WANDERING TATTLER. 



Scolopax iiicana, ClMEL. S. N. 1. 1788, 658. 



Totmius incanus, ViEiLL. Diet. Deterv. VI. 1816, 400. 



Hcteroscdus incanus, CouES, Key, 1872, 261 ; Check List, 1873, no. 440 ; ed. 2, 1882, no. 642 ; in 



Elliott's Alaska, ed. 1875, 187. — Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 553. 

 Tringa glareola, Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1811, 194, pi. 60. 

 Totanus brcvipes, Vieill. Diet. Deterv. VI. 1816, 400. 

 Hctcroscclvs brevipcs, Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 734 ; ed. 1860, pi. 88. — Baied, Cat. N. Am. 



B. 1859, no. 542. 

 Totamis fulUjinosus, Gould, Voy. Beag. Birds, 1841, 130. 

 Scolopax undulata, Foest. Descr. An. ed. Liclit. 1844, 173. 

 Totanus pulverukntiis. Mull. Verb. 1844, 153. 

 Totamis occanicus. Less. Compl. Bulf. 1847, 244. 

 Totanus polijncsice, Peale, Voy. Vine. & Peae. Birds, 1848, 237. 

 Totanus griseopyejius, Gould, B. Austr. VI. pi. 38. 

 "Gambetta brevijKs, occanica, puhcrulenta, oceanica^, griscopygla, Bonap." 



Hab. The islands and shores of tlie Pacific Ocean. Of fret^uent occurrence, during migra- 

 tions, along the coast of Alaska, and also soutliward to the Galapagos. 



Sp. Char. Rather larger than Totamis flavipes. Summer adult: Entire upper parts uniform 

 dark plumbeous ; lower parts white, shaded with plumbeous laterally, the foreneck with longi- 

 tudinal streaks, and other portions with transverse bars, of dusky plumbeous. Lining of wing 

 white, spotted and barred with dark plumbeous ; primaries blackish dusky, the .shafts brown on 

 the outer and white on the inner surface, that of the first quill, however, white on both sides. 

 IFinter plumaije : Above, plain plumbeous ; lower parts white washed with plumbeous along sides 

 and across juguluni. Youny : Somewhat like the winter plumage, but secondaries, scapulars, and 

 upper tail-coverts indistinctly spotted with white along edges, and tlie plumbeous of sides, etc., 

 faintly mottled with white. 



Wing, 6.50-7.30 ; culmen, 1.50-1.60 ; tar.sus, 1.25-1.35 ; middle toe, 1.00-1.05. 



Tlie history of the present species is imperfectly known. We luxve no account 

 of the manner or the locality of its breeding. In North America it seems to be con- 

 fined to the Pacific shore and islands, and to inhabit by preference the rocky portions 



