ILLUSTRATIONS 



Plate I 



Leucotreron merrilli McGregor, from the type and from a living bird. 

 Drawn and colored by T. Espinoza. X 0.5. 



Plate II 



Ankinga melanogaster Pennant, from a living bird. 



Plate III 



Figs. 1 and 2. Pithecophaga jefferyi Grant, from a living bird. 

 Fig. 3. Gallinago megala Swinhoe, a partial albino. Photograph of a 

 specimen mounted by the Bureau of Science. 



text figures 



[Drawings by M. Ligaya.] 



Fig. 1. Mesoscolopax minutus (Gould), generic details, from a female. 

 X 1. 



2. Macrorkamphus semipalmatus (Jerdon) , generic details, from a 



female. X 1. 



3. Totanus stagnatilis Bechstein, generic details, from a male. X 1. 

 *" 4. A, Gallinago gallinago CLmnsens) ; b, G. stenura (Bonaparte). 



Tails, shov?ing the difference in the rectrices. X §. 



5. Gallinago megala Swinhoe, generic details. X §• 



6. Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus), generic details. X 1. 



7. Plegadis autumnalis (Linnaeus), generic details, from a male. 



X 0.5. 



8. Pithecophaga jefferyi Grant, generic details, from the Ickis speci- 



men [see This Journal, Sec. A (1907), 2, 297]. The lower 

 mandible is worn or retracted. Wing, X 0.25; bill and foot, 

 X 0.5. 



9. Chsatura dubia McGregor, generic details, from the type. X 1- 

 10. Chsatura gigantea (Temminck), generic details, from a male. X 1. 



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