118 BIRDS OF BRITISH GTIAN'A. 



Genus CATOPTROPHORUS Bouap. 



Cdtoptrophorus Bonaparte. Ann. Lye. Xew York. ii. p. 323, 1827. Tv^ 

 C. semipalmatus (Gmel.). 



The chief characters by which this genus is distinguished are 

 the webs connecting the outer and inner toes with the middle toe. 



IW. Catoptropliorus semipalmatus. 



WiLLET. 



Catoptrophorus gemipalmafus (Gmel.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 699, 1789 



("Habitat in Xoveboraco " ) ; Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. 



p. 7oS, 184S ; Brabourne & Chubb. B. S. Amer. i. p. 41, no. 396, 



1912. 

 Symphemia semipalm/ifa Sal\*in. Ibis. 1886, p. 179: Shai-pe, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 40-5. 1^96 : Qiielch, Tiniehri (2) x. p. 276, 



1896. 



"Stone Snipe or Curlew,'^ - White-winged Curlew "' {QuelcJi). 



Adult male. General colour above ash-grey, including the head, 

 back, and wings, with dark shaft-lines to some of the feathers ; 

 lesser median and greater upper wing-coverts margined or mottled 

 with \rhite ; bastard-wing, marginal coverts, and primary-coverts 

 blackish narrowly edged with white ; quills white, blackish at the 

 tips and entire outer web of first primary, secondaries for the most 

 part white with a small amount of dark brown near the tip of some 

 o£ the outer ones, innermost secondaries like the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail white with pale brown mottling near the tip of 

 the latter ; supraloral streak and a spot above the eye white ; 

 lores and feathers in front of the eye somewhat darker than the 

 crown: throat and entire under surface white with a wa^h of grev 

 on the fore-neck and sides of the breast; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts black margined or tipped with white. '' Bill light 

 blue, dusky towards the end; feet light blue, claws black; iris 

 brown.'' 



Total length 300 mm., culmen 59, wing 200. tail G9, tarsus 57. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 192 mm. 



The male described was collected on the Abary Eiver in 

 November 1906, and the female on the Berbice Eiver in 

 November 1895. 



Although Mr. J. J. Qnelch states that this species is obtainable 

 at all times of the year in British Guiana, we have not found 

 anv record of its breedinir in the Colonv. 



