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Typical or Pied Oyster catchers. 



H^MATOPUS OSTRALEGUS. 



EUROPEAN 0T8TEBCATCHEB. 



HiEMATOPUS primarise quartee quintseque pogoniis externis macula alb^ notatis. 



Diagnosis. 



Brehm subdivided the Common Oystercatcher into three species, founded on alleged Variations. 

 differences in the shape of the skull and feet and the number of quills, but modern 

 ornithologists are unable to discover any local races of this species. 



Haematopus ostralegus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 152 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1766). Synonymy. 



Ostralega ostralega, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 38 (1760). 



Scolopax pica^ Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 95 (1769). 



Ostralega pica (Scop.), Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. i. p. 26 (1790). 



Haematopus hypoleuca, Paltas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 129 (1826). 



Ostralega europeea, Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 300 (1828). 



Ostralegus vulgaris. Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 47. 



Ostralegus hsematopus, Macgillivray, Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 59 (1842). 



Haematopus maerorhynchus, Blytli, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiv. p. 548 (1845). 



