BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERIOA. 2295 
Machetes planiceps Bream, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 671 (Pomeranian Islands and 
middle Germany). 
Totanus indicus Gray and sama Illustr. Ind. Zool., ii, 1832, pl.52, fig. 1, 
pl. 54, figs. 1, 2. 
Machetes uoriabttte C. T. Woop, Grn. Guide, [1837,] 203 (Substitute name for 
Tringa pugnax Linneeus). 
Philomachus pugnax indicus ReicHenBacH, Grallatores, 1850, pl. 72, figs. 596-600. 
Limosa hardwickit Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool., ii, pl. 52, fig. 2. 
Machetes optatus Hopason, in Gray’s Zool. Misc., 1844, 86 (Nepal). 
Machetes minor BreuM, Vogelf., 1855, 320 (Greece and the Blue Nile). 
Terekia cinerea (not Scolopax cinerea Giildenstadt) Butter, Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 
17; v, 1877, 233 (Deesa, India, July—March). 
Genus TRYNGITES Cabanis. 
Tryngites® CaBAnis, Journ. fiir. Orn., 1856, 418. (Type, by original designation, 
Tringa rufescens Vieillot=T. subruficollis Vieillot.) 
Tringites (emendation) ScuaTER, Ibis, 1862, 277.—SHarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
XxXiv, 1896, 520. 
Medium-sized Eroliinee(?) (wing 122-136 mm.) with bill decidedly 
shorter than head, malar antia on vertical line with middle of nostril, 
loral feathering in contact with posterior end of nostril, and inner 
webs of remiges marbled or freckled with dusky. 
Bill much shorter than head (as long as middle toe without claw, 
or slightly shorter), slender, tapering terminally in lateral profile, 
the tip of maxilla depressed and slightly decurved; nasal groove 
extending about three-fourths the distance to tip of maxilla, rather 
broad posteriorly but contracted anteriorly; nostril basal (in contact 
posteriorly with loral féathering), longitudinally linear, but divided 
into two nearly equal parts by a knob-like internasal process descend- 
ing from upper portion; loral and latero-frontal antiz on same 
vertical line, both in contact with (or very nearly so) the posterior 
end of nostril; malar antia on same vertical line as middle of nostril, 
the mental antia anterior to anterior end of nostril. Wing long and 
pointed, the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries 
by about half the length of the wing; elongated, acuminate tertials 
reaching nearly to tip of longest primaries. Tail less than half as long 
as wing, slightly rounded, the middle pair of rectrices projecting 
slightly but decidedly; retrices 12, rounded at tips, the middle pair 
slightly but distinctly contracted terminally. Tarsus about one and 
one-fourth times as long as middle toe with claw, more than one- 
fourth as long as wing, continuously scutellate anteriorly and pos- 
teriorly; bare portion of tibia decidedly shorter than middle toe with- 
out claw, scutellate before and behind; lateral toes decidedly shorter 
than middle toe, the outer slightly longer than the inner; toes cleft 
to the base. 
@T pbyyas=Tringa (Cabanis). 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 816 
