454 Ant. Keichenow und Herman Schalow: 



a partibus candidioribns. L. 24; wing 16,25; culmen 1,75; bill 

 fromnostril0,85;froin gape2,60; tarsus 2,35;middletoe and claw 2,27 ; 

 tail 6,65. 



Hab.: Cumberland Sound and Greenland, migrating south in 

 Winter to the Bay of Fundy and Grand Menan. 

 Farn. CHARADRIIDAE. 

 ■\ 7. Äe gialites albtdipectes. 

 ' R. Ridgway, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus. Vol. 5, p. 526. 



Forehead (broadly) superciliary stripe (extending back to end 

 of auriculars), cheeks (up to lower eyelid) and lower parts generally 

 pure white, the whole breast strongly tinged with light pinkish 

 cinnamon, this growing gradually deeper cinnainon on the sides of 

 the neck and across the nape. A distinct stripe from the rictus to 

 the eye, across the lores, the whole crown, and auriculars, black. 

 Occiput and upper parts in general, deep brownish gray, tinged, 

 especially on the back, with light yellowish fulvous. Primaries 

 dusky, with white shafts; greater wing coverts distinctly tipped 

 with white; inner secondaries chiefly white. Lateral upper tail- 

 coverts white. Two outer tail-feathers wholly white, the others 

 dusky. Wing 4,10; tail 1,90; culmen 0,60; tarsus 1,05; middle 

 toe 0,55. 



Hab.: Chili. 

 (8. O edicnemus dominicensis. 



Gh. B. Cory, Journ. Bost. Zool. Soc. 2. p. 46. 



Top of the head, back, wing coverts, and tail, brown; feathers 

 with very pale edgings, giving a mottled appearance to the back; 

 the tailfeathers showing a band of dull white, succeeded by a broacl 

 black tip ; breast, slaty, becoming dull white on the throat ; abdomen, 

 white, tinged with very pale rufous; a line öf black passing from 

 the top of the eye along the sides of the head to the neck; uuder 

 surface of wings, white, becoming dark brown at the tips; the 

 shafts of the featliers on the breast and throat, dark brown, forming 

 numerous hair-like lines on the surface of the plumage; legs and 

 feet, greenish yellow; upper mandible, black; under mandible, 

 green at the base, shading into black at the tip; iris, yellow. 

 Leogth. 14,50; wing 8,50; tail 3,75; tarsus 3,75; bill 1,50. 



Hab.: San. Domingo. 



Farn. EALLIDAE. 



9. Aramides Wolfi. 



H. V. Berlepsch und L. Taczanowski, Proc. Z. S. 

 London 1883, p. 576. 



Supra olivaceus, capite fusco-cinereo, auehenio dorsoque ante- 

 riore rufescentibus , uropygio latissime caudaque nigris; subtus 

 gula cum collo antico superiore dilute cinerea; jugulo rubro-rufo, 

 pectore abdomineque medio rufis, olivaceo perfusis; hypochondriis 

 olivaceis; vertre medio, crisso subcaudalibusque nigris; tectricibus 

 alarum remigibusque tertiariis dorso concoloribus ; remigibus rufe 



