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H^MATOPUS. 

 Hcematopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1766) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 105 (1896). 

 The characters of this genus are given above under the subfamily. 



1. HaBmatopus palliatns. 



The Oyster-catcher, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 85, t. 85 \ 



Hamatopus palliatus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 532'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 228^; Salv. 



Ibis, 1865, p. 190*; 1889, p. 379°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. pp. 141% 210'; 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 308'; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 46'; Grayson, 



Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 284"; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 232"; Baird, Brew., & 



Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 112'='; A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. 



p. 104"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 114"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, 



p. 209 '' ; Nelson, N. Amer. Fauna, no. 14, p. 34 ''. 

 Hamatopus brasiliensis, Licbt. Verz. Doubl. p. 73"; Pi-eis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 3"; Cab. J. f. Om. 



1863, p. 59 ". 



Brunneus, uropygii lateribus et supracaudalibus pure albis ; alis bmnneis ; tectricibus majoribus pure albis 

 ad basin saturate brunneis ; secundariis albis, intimis brunneis dorso concoloribus ; primariis quinque 

 externis sepiariis, proximorum rhachide medialiter alba ; rectricibua sepiariis, ad basin albis ; capite 

 colloque nndiqiie nigris ; corpore reliquo subtus pure albo : rostro miniato ; pedibus pallide carneis ; iride 

 laete flava, palpebris miniatis. Long, tota circa 17-5, alae 10'5, caudse 4-2, culm. 3-7, tarsi 2'4. (Descr. 

 maris adulti ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 

 5 mari similis. 



Juv. adulto similis, sed plumis rufo marginatis distinguendus. 



Hob. NoETH America, sea-coasts of Temperate and Tropical sub-regions, occasional or 

 accidental on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand Menan^^. — 

 Mexico {Deppe & Schiede ^^ ^^), Tres Marias Is. {Grayson^ '^^ Mazatlan [Grayson ^, 

 Bischoff^), Rio Zacatula [Xantus^), Isabella I. (Grayson^), Tehuantepec ^i, 

 Tonala 11, Santa Maria del Mar i^, San Mateo ^, San Francisco^ (Sumickrast), 

 Merida, N. Yucatan (Schotf ''), Cozumel I. [Gaumer ^ i^) ; Guatemala, Pacific coast, 

 Nagualate^, Chiapam * ^^ {0. S.); Costa Eica {I>ow% Bahia de Salinas [Mus. Nac. 

 de Costa Bica, teste Underwood)'; Paijama, Veragua {Arce^^). — South America, 

 eastern coast to Brazil ^^ ; West Indies i*. 



The American Oyster-catcher is found on both coasts of North and Central America, 

 but we have not seen a specimen from the vpest coast of the southern continent. An 

 example obtained by Mr. Eogers in Santa Catarina, Brazil, is in our collection, and 

 the species probably migrates through the West-Indian Islands along the whole of the 

 eastern coast of South America. 



Grayson i" says that it is common on the western coast of Mexico, being sometimes 

 seen in flocks, and breeding both on the mainland and on the Tres Marias Islands. 

 It must be noted, however, that Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, in the ' Catalogue of Birds,' 

 identifies a specimen from the last-named locality as H. frazari; and Mr. Nelson is, while 



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