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APPENDIX. 



the base of the ciilmen. Wing-feathers dusky; shaft of first primary white; several inner 

 primaries with white area along their outer 

 webs; the secondaries and greater coverts 

 tipped with white. Tail-feathers like the 

 back, tipped with white, and successively 

 paler laterally, till the outermost are nearly 

 white; upper tail-coverts also tipped with 

 whitish. Bill and feet black. The young 

 lack the distinctive chestnut and black mark- 

 ings, though the breast may be somewhat 

 suifused with pale cinnamon, and at an early 

 age all the feathers of the upper parts have 

 pale edgings. Wing 5.25; tail 2.25; bill 

 0.70; tarsus 1.15; middle toB 0.75. A well- 

 known species of wide distribution in the 

 Old World, recorded from Choris Peninsula, 

 Alaska. (See Ibis, 1870, p. 384; P. Z. S. 

 1871, pp. Ill, 114.) It is entirely different 



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Fig. 562. — Mongolian Plover, 

 from any other plover described in this work, and should long ago have been taken into 

 the Key. 



COUES KEY, 1884. 



592. Podasocys montanus. 



593. Vanellus cristatus. 



594. Aphriza vii-gata. 



595. Hfematopus ostrilegus. 



596. palliatus. 

 .597. niger. 



598. Strepsilas interpres. 



599. melanocephalns. 



600. Kecurvirostra americana. 



601. Himantopus mexicanus. 



602. Steganopus wilsoni. 



603. Lobipes hyperboreus. 



604. Phalaropus fulicarius. 



605. Philohela minor. 



606. Scolopax rusticula. 



607. Gallinago media. 



608. wilsoni. 

 509. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



610. scolopaceus. 



611. Micropalama himantopus. 



612. Ereunetes pusillus. 



613. pusillus occidentalis. 



614. Actodromas minutilla. 



UNION LIST, 1886. 



281. iEgialitis montana. 

 [269.] Vanellus vanellus. 



282. Aphriza virgata. 

 [285.] Hsematopus ostralegus. 



286. palliatus. 



287. bachmani. 



283. Arenaria interpres. 



284. ' melanocephala. 



225. Recurvirostra americana. 



226. Himantopus mexicanus. 

 224. Phalaropus tricolor. 

 223. lobatus. 

 222. Crymophilus fulicarius. 

 228. Philohela minor. 



[227.] Scolopax rusticola. 

 [229.] Gallinago gallinago. 



230. delicata. 



231. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



232. scolopaceus. 



233. Micropalama himantopus. 



246. Ereunetes pusillus. 



247. occidentalis. 

 242. Tringa minutilla. 



000. [Not admitted in the List.] 



614 te. Add: Tringa damascensis. Damascene Sandpiper. IjOng-toed Stint. 

 Resembling the last in coloration. Shaft of first primary only, white. Middle toe and claw 

 longer than tarsus or culmen ; tips of outstretched toes reaching far beyond end of tail, and 

 tip of tail beyond points of the folded wings; four outer pairs of tail-feathers of equal 



