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STEEPSILAS INTEEPEES. 



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Tringa interpres^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 248 (1766). 

 Tringa morineUa^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766). 

 Tringa hudsonica^ Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 114 (1776). 

 Morinella collaris, Meyer and Wolf, Tasch. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 

 Charadrius cindiis, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 148 (1811).. 

 Strepsilas interpres^ Illiger, Prodr. p. 263 (1811). 

 Strepsilas collaris^ Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 349 (1815). 

 Arenaria interpres, Vieill. N. D. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 345 (1819). 

 Strepsilas horealis^ Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 559 (1831). 

 Strepsilas littoralis^ Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 560 (1831). 

 Cinclus morinelliis^ Gray, List Gen. of B. p. 85 (1841). 

 Cinclm interpres^ Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 549 (1846). 

 Strepsilas minor^ Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 289. 



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Ad. pfiL (Bstiv. pileo et cervice albis, plumis medialiter nigris, quasi striatis : fascia nigra frontali ante oculum 



decurrente et un^ cum genis nigris ad coUum laterale conjunct^ : regione oculari alba : dorso tete 

 castaneo, plagA magna interscapular! utrinque nigra, et ptilosi reliqu£i plus minusve nigro notata : dorso 

 postico et supracaudalibus albis, uropygio nigro : tectricibus alarum pallide ferrugineis, exterioribus 

 nigro notatis, majoribus late albo terminatis : remigibus brunneis, et versus apicem saturatioribus, 

 primariis minoribus ad basin albis, remigibus minoribus anguste albo terminatis, secundariis latissime 

 albo marginatis, secundariis intimis dorso coucoloribus : cauda alba, late brunneo transfasciatd, rectri- 

 cibus duabus centralibus omnino brunneis : gula alba, nigro notatd : gutture et pectore toto superiore 

 nigerrimis : corpore reliquo subtus pure albo : rostro nigro : pedibus rubris : iride nigrft. 



Ad, ptiL Mem, ubique obscurior, nigredine brunnescente mixtd : vertice nigro albo pauUulum vario : gula albida : 



coloribus ut in ptilosi sestiv^ agnoscendis sed semper pallidioribus. 



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Adult in summer. Forehead and sides of the head white, the former crossed by a narrow band of velvety 

 black, which connects the eyes, and widening below them, joins a broader band of the same colour, 

 extending from the base of the lower mandible on each side of the throat ; crown of the head white, 

 each feather centred with black ; hind part of neck white, more or less varied with brownish black ; 

 shoulders and upper part of the back glossy black, with a broad irregular mark of chestnut in the line 

 of the spine; the whole of the mantle black, varied with chestnut, and some of the feathers narrowly 

 tipped with white ; the lower part of the back and the upper tail-coverts white ; throat white, mottled 

 on the lower part with black, which rapidly predominates, the fore part and sides of the breast, up to 

 the insertion of the wings, as well as the rump, being velvety black ; the rest of the body-plumage pure 



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