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1. Totanus melanoleucus. 



Stone Snipe, Penn. Arctic Zool. p. 468 \ 



Scolopax melanoleuca, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 659 '. 



Totanus melanoleucus, v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 377 ' ; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 379*; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 269"; Ferrari-Perez, 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 178'; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 363' ; Allen, Bull. 



Amer. Mus. N. H. v. p. 33'; A. 0. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 93'; Elliot, 



N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 117"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 426 ". 

 Glottis melanoleuca, Sol. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 215 ". 

 Gambetta melanoleuca, Sol. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 229"; Scl. P.Z. S. 1860, p. 253"; Lawr. Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 479 " ; ix. p. 141 " ; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 309 " ; Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 47"; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 142"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 219"; 



Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 232 ". 



PtU. hiem. Supra cinerascenti-brunneus, plumis nonnullis nigro et albo minute notatis ; tectricibus alarum 

 majoribus et secundariis eodem modo fasciatim notatis ; supraoaudalibus albis, longioribus fusco anguste 

 fasciatis ; rectricibus cinerascenti-brunneis, fusco extus dentatis, extimis intus albis brunneo fasciatis 

 vel vermiculatis ; loris et superoilio indistinoto albis, illis nigro maculafcis ; regione parotica brunnescente ; 

 geuie et corpore subtus pure albis, prsepectore brunneo striolato ; subalaribus et axUlaribus albis, brunneo 

 transfasciatis : rostro nigro, ad basin cserulescenti-griseo ; pedibus laete flavis, unguibus brunneacenti- 

 nigris ; iride saturate brunnea. Long, tota circa 12-0, alae 7'8, eaudse 2-9, culm. 2'35, tarsi 2-45. 

 (Descr. feminae adultae ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 



Ptil. cestiv. Supra cinerascenti-brunneus, plumis medialiter nigris et albido dentatim maculatis, supraoaudalibus 

 albis nigro transfasciatis ; collo, praepectore et corporis lateribus nigro striolatis vel maculis cordiformibus 

 notatis. (Descr. maris adulti ex Puebla. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. North America, breeding from Iowa and Northern Illinois northward^. — 

 Mexico ^i, Sonora [RoUnette ^), Presidio de Mazatlan {Forrer "), Colima 

 {Xantus 1'^), Guanajuato {Duges ^^), Santana, Guadalajara {Lloyd "), San Mateo, 

 Tehuantepec {Sumichrast ^% Orizaba {Botteri ^^, Salle ^*), Atotonilco ", Nativitas 

 and Laguna del Eosario, Tlaxcala {Ferrari-Perez % Progreso, N. Yucatan 

 {Gaumer^^); Guatemala, Duenas {0. S.'^^^% Chiapam {0. /S. "), Atitlan 

 {Richardson ^^)\ Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast (iV^M^^m^r 4), Momo- 

 tombo {Richardson i^) ; Costa Eica, San .lose {v. Frantzius ^ Zeledon ", Carmiol ^\ 

 Calleja ^^), Punta Arenas, Laguna de Cartago {Underwood, in litt.) ; Panama, Chitra 

 {Arce^^^^), Lion Hill {M'Leannan^^^^). — South America generally ii ; West 

 Indies i^. 



The present species does not extend so far north during the breeding-season as 

 its smaller relative, T. flavipes, and it nests in some of the more northern United 

 States, wandering south in winter into the Neotropical Eegion. On its southward 

 journey it passes by both coasts, as well as through the interior of Central America, 

 and was found to be common on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua by Mr. Nutting *. 

 We met with it at Duenas in Guatemala, where the bird seemed to prefer the lake-side 

 to the marshy resort of the other species of Waders, and it usually occurred singly. 



