38 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult male.—Wing, 249-265 (259.1); tail, 97-109 (101.8); culmen, 
70-82.5 (75.9) ; greatest depth of bill, 12.5-14.5 (13.3) ; tarsus, 50-56.5 
(53.2); middle toe, 37.5-43 (39.2).2 
Adult female.—Wing, 245-275 (264.3); tail, 96-113.5 (104.9); cul- 
men, 74-90 (83.5); greatest depth of bill, 12-14 (13); tarsus, 52-58 
(55. 1); middle toe, 38-44 (40.3).¢ 
Coasts and islands of Lower California (Carmen, Cerros, Cedros, 
Ceralvo, San Gerénimo, San Martin, Espiritu Santo, and Natividad 
islands ; Los Coronados Islands; La Paz; San Quentin Bay ; Magdalena 
Bay; Concepcién Bay; northward, casually, to Ventura County, 
California, southward to Tepic (Maria Madre and Maria Cleofa 
islands, Tres Marias group; Isabella Island; White Rock; San Blas), 
Guererro (Acapulco; Cayacal; Sihutanejo).? 
(?] Hematopus ostralegus (not of Linneeus) Vicors, Zool. Voy. ‘‘Blossom,” 
Birds, 1839, 29 (west coast of America). 
[?] Hematopus palliatus (not of Temminck?) Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 
1848, 116 (Chile)—Scnater and Satvin, Ibis, 1859, 228 (mouth of Rio 
Nagualate, Pacific side, Guatemala); 1870, 497 (Ancud, Chile).—Gzrmain, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 314 (Chile).—Saxvin, Ibis, 1865, 190 
(Chiapam, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 429 (Paracas Bay, 
Peru).—Grayson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 284 (Tres Marias 
Islands, w. Mexico).—Lawrencr, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 308. 
(Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Isabella Island; Tres Marias Islands; Rio Zacatula, 
Colima); Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 46 (San Mateo and San Francisco, 
Oaxaca, Feb., April)—Taczanowsx1, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 748 
(Santa Lucia, Peru); Orn. du Pérou, iii, 1886, 350.—Puriier1, Ornis, vol. 4, 
1888, 159 (Chafiaral, n. Chile)—Suarpz, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., xxiv, 1896, 
114, part (Chiapam, Guatemala; Veragua).—Netson, North Am. Fauna, 
no. 14, 1899, 34 (Tres Marias Islands; Isabella Island; coast near San Blas, 
Tepic; crit.:—Saztvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 
347, part (Tres Marias; Isabella Island; Mazatlan; Rio Zacatulo; San Fran- 
cisco, San Mateo, Tehuantepec, and Santa Maria del Mar, Oaxaca; Tonalé, 
Chiapas; Nagualate and Chiapam, Guatemala; Bahia de Salinas, Costa 
Rica; Veragua; Panama). 
[?] [Hematopus] palliatus Forsrg and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 
1899, 63 (Chiapam, Guatemala). 
Hematopus palliatus Bexpine, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 351 (La Paz, 
Lower California) —EvERMANN, Auk, iii, 1886, 92 (Ventura Co., California).— 
Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat Mus., v, 1883, 527 (Los Coronados Islands, Lower 
California).—Suarre, Cat. Birds. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 114, part (many ref- 
erences in synonymy), 
< Fifteen specimens. 
b Also cited by Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 117) and others as occurring 
on the coast of Peru (Paracas Bay; San Lorenzo Island) and Chile (Arauco, Province 
of Tarapac4; Province of Santiago; Ancud; Chafiar4l), and even the Straits of Magellan. 
Pacific coast citations of H. palliatus which may or may not be referable to this form 
(see first paragraph on p. 34) are: Oaxaca (San Mateo; Santa Maria del Mar; San Fran- 
cisco; Tehuantepec), Chiapas (Tonal4), Guatemala (Chiap4ém; mouth of Rio Nagua- 
late), Costa Rica (Bahia de Salinas) and Panamé (Veragua; San Miguél Island, Bay 
of Panama). 
