1 '22 BIRD< OF BRITISH (iriAXA. 



Total length 225 mm., culmen 38, wing IGO, tail G2, tarsus 51. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 154 mm. 



The male described was taken on the Abary River in September 

 1907. 



This bird breeds in North America and occurs in British 

 Guiana only in winter. 



Range in British Guiana. Bonasika River, Essequebo River, 

 Abary River (McConnell collection^ ; Bartica, Kamakusa 

 ( WhiteJy). 



Extralimital Range. South America generally, West India 

 Islands, Central and North America, accidental in Europe. 



Habits. According to Sohomburgk (Reis. Guian. id. p. 757) 

 this species inhabits the mussel-banks in the mouth of the River 

 Waini. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri, (2) x. p. 272) makes the following 

 remarks on the species: — "The small or common Yellow?hanks 

 {Totanus Jlavipes)., which comes as a migrant in August and 

 departs in October and November. These birds are known to 

 breed as far north as Arctic America, and to range south to 

 Patagonia. Man}' stragglers remain with us throughout the 

 winter." 



Genus TRINGA Linn. 



Tringa Linne, Syst Nat. 10th ed. i. p- 148, 1758. Type T. ocrophus 

 Linn. 



This genus is distinguished from Totanus by its much shorter 

 tarsus, which ordy slightly exceeds the middle toe and cknv in 

 length. 



7G. Tringa solitaria. 

 Solitary Sandpiper. 



Tringa solitoria Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 53, pi. 58. fig. 2, 1813 



(probahlv Pennsvlvania) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. 8. Amer. i. p. 41. 



no. 399, "19 12. 

 Jfhgftcophilus solifariii.'s Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 180 (Mt. Boraima) ; 



Quelch, Timehri (2) x. p. 277, 1896. 

 ]ffJo(Jro))U(H solitayiiis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xxiv. p. 444, 1S9G 



(Bartica Grove, Carirniing River, Bupurmnl Bivei-) ; BeeV>e, Our 



Search for a Wilderness, p. 263, 1910 ( Matope). 



" Wood Tattler " (Quelch). 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, with white 

 ^pots or edging- to the feathei'S of the back, wing<. ainl niidille 



