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FROCEEBINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



portion of central tail-feathers buffy; wings fuscous, the innermost 

 secondaries like the back and barred on exposed portions with dark 

 brown ; remainder of secondaries white, but pale brown on concealed 

 bases ; greater coverts white or grayish distally, brownish gray basally, 

 and barred with sepia; median coverts brownish gray, barred with 

 sepia; lesser coverts almost i)lain; lower surface white, more or less 

 heavily marked throughout with sepia, these markings taking on throat 

 and breast the form of broad streaks, on flanks, sides, and crissum of 

 bars, and elsewhere of more or less irregular spots ; lining of wing white, 

 varied with brownish, except on axillars. 



The form of Totanus totanus^ inhabiting Central and Eastern Asia, 

 although seemingly identical with the European bird in color and mark- 

 ings, is yet so much larger, particularly in length of wing, tail, and cul- 

 men, that its separation as a subspecies appears to be warranted. All 

 of the many names which the species possesses are without doubt exclu- 

 sively applicable to the European bird, thus leaving the Eastern form 

 without a name. The following table of millimeter measurements 

 presents the difference between the two races: 



Totanus totanus totanus. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Exposed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 







156 

 158 

 152 

 151 

 150 



62 

 64 

 05 

 02 

 04 



46 

 39 

 41 

 40 

 41 



50 

 44 

 45 

 41 

 47 



30 



Do 



do 



28 





do 



30 



Do 



do 



29 



Do 





30 











153.4 



63.4 



41.4 



45.4 



29.4 









Totanus totanus eurliinus. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Exposed 

 culmen. 



Middle 

 toe. 



Female . 



Do., 

 Male - . 



Do.. 



Do. 



Kashgar, Turkestan 



Lake Tsomoriri, Ladak 



do 



do 



Hanle, Ladak 



Average (5 specimens) 



160 

 170 

 160 

 163 

 162 



30.2 



Four specimens of Totanus t. eurhinus, including the type, are in the 

 I^resent collection; three of these are from Lake Tsomoriri, Ladak, at 

 15,000 feet; the other from Hanle, Rupshu, Ladalv, 14,000 feet; and all 

 are summer birds. " Length of male, llj inches; of female, llf inches; 

 bill black, orange brown at base beneath; iris dark brown; feet 

 orange red; claws black." 



^ Scolopax totanus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 145 {=Totanus calidris 

 auct.y. 



