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TOTANUS. 



Synonymy. Totanus brevipes, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 410 (1817). 



Totanus pedestris, Lesson, Traitd d' Orn. p. 552 (1831, partim). 

 Totanus pulverulentus^ Milller, Nat. Verh. p. 153 (1844). 

 Totanus griseopygius, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 39. 

 Gambetta pulverulenta [MiiU.) , a 



Gambetta griseopyga {Gould), V Bonap. Crnnpt. Rend, xliii. p. 597 (1856). 

 Gambetta brevipes (Fiej/Zoi), J 



Heteroscelus brevipes {Vieill.) , Baird, Cassin, ^ Lawrence, Birds N. Amer. p. 734 (1858, partim). 

 Actitis pulverulentus [Mull.), Dybowski, Parrex, Journ. Orn. 1868, p. 337. 

 Heteractitis brevipes (Vieill.), Stejneger, Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. p. 137 (1885). 



Literatuie. Plates. — Temm. & Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Aves, pi. 65 ; Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 38. 



Habits. — Stejn. Orn. Explor. Kamtsch. p. 137 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 268. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



The diiferences between the Asiatic Wandering Tattler and its American ally are 

 as follows : — 



Subspecific 

 characters. 



Geojjraphi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



T. brevipes. 



Tarsus scutellated at the back. 



Nasal groove extending over only half 



the bill. 

 Belly and under tail-coverts pure white 



both in summer and winter. 



Length of wing from carpal joint G'l 

 to 66 inch. 



T. incanus. 



Tarsus reticulated at the back. 



Nasal groove extending along two thirds 



of bill. 

 In summer plumage the bars on the 



breast and flanks extending also to 



the belly and under tail-coverts. 

 Length of wing from carpal joint 6'4 



to 7'1 inch. 



Young in first plumage have white marginal spots emphasized by dark submarginal 

 spots on all the wing-coverts and tertials, and on the scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and tail- 

 feathers ; and obscure bars on the throat, breast, and flanks. 



The Asiatic Wandering Tattler breeds in Eastern Siberia from Lake Baikal to 

 Kamtschatka, and passes along the coasts of Japan, China, Formosa, and the Philippine 

 Islands, to winter in the islands of the Malay Archipelago and Australia. 



I have examples collected by Finsch on Duke of York Island, one of the islands 

 of the Bismark Archipelago, between New Ireland and New Britain. 



