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paler, the collar on liiiul neck narrower and less well defined. The 

 young bird resembles the adult female, but is darker brown above, with 

 buffy ochraceous margins to all the feathers; there is also more bufify 

 on the sides of the head, the breastbaud is i)aler, and the entire lower 

 surface, with the exception of the crissum, is more or less tinged with 

 bufify. 



Careful comparisons with the type of Dr. Eichmond's JEgialitis 

 pamirensis ])rove beyond a doubt that it is the same as the bird Dr. 

 Sharpe identities^ as pyrrhothorax of Gould. When Dr. Eichmond 

 described hxa iJumirensis he had not access to the volume of the British 

 Museum Catalogue containing the LimicohTe; and the species is synon- 

 ymized with mongolus in Seebohm's Geographical Distribution of Plo- 

 vers, Sandpipers, and Snipes. Since no specimens of pyrrliothorax at 

 that time existed in the United States National Museum collection, 

 the mistake was of course a very natural one. The correct specific 

 name of this species seems to be inconspicuiis Wagler,^ the description 

 and probable locality pointing to this identification, and this name 

 antedating jja/rr/io^/iorod? Gould by eight years. 



Family SCOLOPACID^E. 



GALLINAGO SOLITARIA Hodgson. 



Gallinago solitaria Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, III, 1831, p. 238. 



One male of this handsome snipe was taken on December 10, 1895, 

 in the Valley of Cashmere. "Iris dark brown; bill plumbeous, tip 

 black; feet and legs pale yellowish green; toes black. Length, 12^ 

 inches." 



HELODROMAS OCHROPUS (Linneeus). 



Tringa ocrophus (err. typ.) Lixn^us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 149. 

 Totanus ochropus Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 1815, p. 420. 



One specimen in winter plumage, from the Valley of Cashmere. 

 "Iris dark brown; feet and legs olive plumbeous; claws black; bill 

 black, olive at base. Length, 9^ inches." 



TOTANUS TOTANUS EURHINUS, new subspecies. 



Chars, suhsp. — Like true Totanus totanus, but very much larger. 



Description.— Type, male, adult. Cat. No. 16282-3, U.S.N.M.; Lake 

 Tsomoriri, Ladak, 1 5,000 feet, July 29, 1897 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Above 

 rufescent broccoli brown, the feathers everywhere with dark brown 

 centers, the back more or less irregularly barred with the same; rump 

 pure white, sparingly marked with brownisli; tail and upper tail- 

 coverts dull white, heavily barred with sepia brown, the terminal 



1 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, p. 226. ^ igig^ i829, p. 651. 



