390 



CHAEADEIID^ TOTANUS 



those found in South Africa are all migrants from northern lands ; 

 none of the seven species found within our limits have been 

 known to breed with us. 



Fig. 128. — Left foot of Totanus glottis, x \. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Large, wing 6'0 or over ; lower back white, tail 



and upper taU-coverts barred with brown. 



w. Secondaries nearly uniform white ; axillaries 



white T. calidris, p. 390. 



6. Secondaries like the back but slightly edged 

 with white ; axillaries white freckled with 

 brown T. glottis, p. 392. 



B. Smaller, wing under 6'0. 

 w. Axillaries white. 



a}. Bill straight. 



a^. Lower back and upper tail-coverts white T. stagnatilis, ^.S9i. 



V. Lower back and upper tail-coverts bronzy- 

 brown like the back T. hypoleucuSjip.SQd. 



¥. Bill slightly up-curved ; rump and upper 



tail-coverts grey T. cinereus, p. 398. 



b. AxiUaries white with narrow V-shaped bars of 



brown; outer tail-feathers barred T. glareola,^. S95. 



c. Axillaries brown with narrow bars of white ; 



outer tail-feathers pure white T. ochropus, p. 397. 



738. Totanus calidris. Bedshanh. 



Scolopax calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 245 (1766). 



Totanus calidris, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 324 (1867) ; Gumey in Anders- 

 son's B. Damaral. p. 300 (1872) ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii, p. 157, pi. 568, 

 fig. 1, pi. 569, fig. 2 (1875) ; Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 



