32 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Finscu, Ibis, 1877, 49 (Semipalatinsk); Verh. z.-b. ges. Wien, xxix, 1879, 246 
(Irtisch).—Taczanowsk1, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii, 1877, 156 (Poland).— 
Burtuer, Stray Feath., v, 1877, 212 (Mandavee); Cat. Birds Sind, etc., 1879, 
60 (Sind, Cutch, and Kathiawar, India); Cat. Birds S. Bombay Pres., 1880, 
74 (Bombay and Ratnagiri, India)—Boepanow, Birds Caucas., 1879, 154; 
Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 77.—Vipat, Stray Feath.,-ix, 1880, 83 (s. Kon- 
kan).—Leeen, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 987 (n. half. w. coast Ceylon).—Srx- 
noHM, Ibis, 1882, 222 (Astrakhan), 380 (Archangel, n. Russia); 1883, 29 
(Caucasus); 1890, 409 (Great Saltee Island); 1892, 24 (Helgoland); Hist. Brit. 
Birds, iii, 1885, 4; Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1887, pp. xxi, 301, figs— 
Brirish Ornitwoiocists’ Union, List Brit. Birds, 1883, 162.—SEVERTzov, 
Ibis, 1883, 74 (Pamir-Alichur, near Boohma-Kul).—Batrp, Brewer, and 
Riveway, Water Birds N. Am.,i, 1884, 110.—Rappsz, Orn. Caucas., 1884, 44, 
423 (s. w. shores of Caspian Sea and Lenkoran, breeding).—Y ERBURY, Ibis, 1886, 
21 (Aden, Arabia).—AmMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, 
and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 285; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 132.—Tarr, Ibis, 1887, 387 
(Portugal).—RzicHenow, Syst. Verz. Vég. Deutschl., 1889, 53.—Lmrorp, 
Ibis, 1889, 339 (Cyprus).—Brustna, Motr., etc.,(Orn. Croatia), 1890, 88.— 
TuRLE, Ibis, 1891, 6 (Blasket Island, breeding).—GAtTKE, Vogelw. Helgo- 
land, 1891, 514.—Suarpz, Ibis, 1891, 114 (Fao, Oct.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxiv, 1896, 729.—MaparAsz, Ausst. Ungar. Vogelf., 1891, 104.—FRIvaLpsky, 
Aves Hungar., 1891, 125.—Harrert, Ibis, 1892, 517 (e. Prussia)—Barnzs, 
Ibis, 1893, 170 (Aden).—Buace, Ibis, 1893, 355 (Shetland).—Biaauw, Notes 
Leyden Mus., xv, 1893, 226 (Holland).—Poyrntine, Eggs Brit. Birds, pt. i, 
1895, 75, pl. 18.—Etiot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 205, pl. 70.—Ibis, 1896, 
155 (Madras, India).—Pxarson, Ibis, 1896, 212 (Russian Lapland).—Pop- 
HAM, Ibis, 1897, 102 (Yeneseisk, Siberia); 1898, 518 (Yenesei River, Siberia).— 
Grant, Novit. Zool., vii, 1900, 267 (s. Arabia).—WiTHERBY, Ibis, 1903, 566 
(Fars, s. w. Persia). 
H[aematopus] ostralegus KnyseRtiInG and Buasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. lxxi, 
209.—Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 547.—Norpmann, Journ. fir Orn., 1864, 
373 (Finland). ; 
Haemantopus [lapsus] ostralegus Sauvapori, Journ. fiir Orn., 1865, 285 (Sardinia). 
Haematopus ostrealegus Bors, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 95. 
H[zmatopus] ostrilegus Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 606. 
Hematopus ostrilegus Cours, Check List, 2nd ed., 1882, no. 595. 
Haematopus astralegus KIAERBOLLING, Naumannia, i, 1850, 46 (Denmark). 
Scolopaz pica Scorout, Ann. I. Hist. Nat., 1769, 95. 
Ostralega pica BONNATERRE, Tabl. Enc. Méth., i, 1790, 26. 
Ostralega europxa Lesson, Man. d’Orn., ii, 1828, 300; Traité d’Orn., 1831, 548. 
Haematopus balthicus Breum, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 562 (Baltic Sea coast). 
Ostralegus vulgaris Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 47 (nomen nudum). 
Ostralegus hematopus MacciLiivray, Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1842, 59 (Great Britain). 
(?] Toe macrorhynchus Burra, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xiv, 1845, 549 
ndia). 
HAMATOPUS PALLIATUS PALLIATUS Temminck. 
AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Head, neck and upper chest uniform black, 
with very faint gloss of bluish green; a white bar or streak immedi- 
ately beneath lower eyelid; back, scapulars, rump, median-anterior 
upper tail-coverts and greater part of wings plain grayish brown or 
brownish gray (nearly hair brown or deep drab); tips of middle 
wing--overts (broadly), whole of exposed portion of greater coverts, 
