384 CHAEADEIID^. 



in the British Museum collection, one being pale buff, very thickly mottled and 

 speckled with rich rufous-bronze, and the other of a greyish cream-colour, blotched 

 and spotted with sepia, brown, and pale underlying purple i^. 



Subfam. SCOLOPACLNJE. 

 This subfamily, which comprises several of the Sandpipers and the Snipes, differs 

 from the Totaninse in having the toes cleft to the base, without any connecting-web. 



The species of this group, like those of the foregoing, are practically cosmopolitan 

 in their distribution. 



TRINGITES. 

 Tringites, Cab. J. f. Om. 1856, p. 418; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 521 (1896). 



In this genus the legs are decidedly long, the tarsus exceeding the culmen in length, 

 and being longer than the middle toe and claw. In all the other members of the 

 Scolopacinae the tarsus does not exceed the dimensions of the bill. The inner webs of 

 the primaries are mottled. The tail is long and doubly emarginate. 



Only one species of Tringites is known, peculiar to the New World, nesting in 

 the north, and visiting Central America on migration on its way south to its winter 

 residence. 



1. Tringites subruficollis. 



Chorlito garganta blanca acanelada, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 320 \ 



Trin^a subruficollig, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxkiv. p. 465^. 



Tringites subruficollis, A. 0. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, p. 158' j ibid. 2nd ed. p. 96*; Cherrie, 



Auk, 1892, p. 329 ' ; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 145 ' ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



xxiv. pp. 521 ^ 766 '; Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 51 '. 

 Tringa rufescens, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 470 " ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 446 ". 

 Tringites rufescens. Cab. J. f. Orn. 1856, p. 418"; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 39"; v. Fraatz. J. f. 



Orn. 1869, p. 377"; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 142''; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds 



N. Amer. i. p. 305 '^ Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 379". 



Ptil. hiem. Supra maculata, plumis nigris, arenario-rufo marginatis ; ala spuria, tectricibns primariorum et 

 remigibus brnnaeis, intus nigro irroratis, albido anguste terminatis, macula subterminali nigra ; rectricibus 

 medianis nigricantibus, reliqais brunneis rufescenti-albo terminatis, nigro sparsim irroratis et subter- 

 minaliter fasciatis ; pileo arenario, nigro angusfce striolaio ; facie laterali et corpore subtus paUide 

 cianamomeo-rufls, plumis indistincte albido marginatis, abdomine et subcaudalibns paUidioribus • snb- 

 alaribus clare cinnamomeis, marginalibus ad basin seriatim nigris ; tectricibns primariorum inferioribus 

 et remigibus infra nigro marginatis : rostro sordide olivascenti-viridi ; pedibus sordide flaricanti-viridibus • 

 iride coryllina. Long, tota circa 7-4, alae 5-2, caudae 2-35, culm. 1*05, tarsi 1-35. (Descr. avis adulta ex 

 Ins. Ruatan. Mus. nostr.) 



Piil. cestiv. a ptilosi hiemab vix distinguenda, sed paullo rufescentior, et pectore summo laterali et prffipectore 

 maculis paucis nigris ornatis. (Descr. maris adulti ex Point Barrow, ilus. nostr.) 



Hob. NoETH Ameeica, especially in the interior; breeding in the Yukon district 



