BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 267 
Neopisobiat Matuews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 245, in text. 
(Type, by original designation, Totanus damacensis Horsfield = Tringa sub- 
minuta Middendorff.) 
Medium-sized to very small Eroliine (wing 82-146 mm.) with 
completely cleft anterior toes; tail two-fifths as long as wing, with 
middle pair of rectrices projecting beyond the rest and more or less 
contracted (sometimes subacuminate) terminally, and exposed culmen 
not longer (usually. shorter) than tarsus, the latter usually equal 
to or even longer than middle toe with claw, but sometimes shorter. 
Bill straight, little if any longer than head (sometimes shorter), 
the exposed culmen never longer (usually shorter) than tarsus, taper- 
ing distally in lateral profile, its edges more nearly parallel in vertical 
profile; nasal groove broad, at least basally, extending nearly to 
base of the faintly decurved tip of maxilla; mandible with a nar- 
rower and much less distinct lateral groove; nostril sub-basal, small, 
linear; malar antia decidedly anterior to edge of loral feathering, the 
mental antia still farther forward (about on same vertical line with 
middle of nostril). Wing rather long, pointed, the longest primary 
(outermost) exceeding distal secondaries by half the length of wing 
or slightly more, the acuminate or narrowed ° longest tertials not 
extending to tips of longest primaries. Tail more than two-fifths as 
long as wing, nearly truncate but inclining to slightly rounded or 
slightly emarginate (P. fuscicollis and P. bairdz), the middle pair of 
rectrices contracted terminally (acuminate in P. maculata and 
P. acuminata) and projecting, more or less, beyond the rest; rec- 
trices 12. Tarsus not shorter (usually longer) than middle toe with 
claw, except in P. minutilla and P. subminuta (especially the latter), 
usually a little less than one-fifth but sometimes (P. acuminata) 
more than one-fourth as long as wing, continuously scutellate ante- 
riorly and posteriorly; bare portion of tibia about as long as first 
two phalanges of middle toe, or a little shorter, scutellate before 
and behind; lateral toes decidedly shorter than middle toe, the 
inner decidedly shorter than the outer; no trace of web in either 
interdigital space. 
Coloration.—In summer above brownish gray or grayish brown, 
sometimes suffused or intermixed with rusty, spotted or broadly 
striped with black; beneath white, except chest and foreneck which 
are pale buffy grayish or dull buffy more or less distinctly streaked 
4Nés, new + Pisobia. (Mathews.) 
bSometimes (in P. minuiilla and P. subminuta) the ‘‘second’’ primary is nearly if 
not quite as long as the outermest. 
¢In the smaller species (P. minutilla, P. subminuta, P. temmincki, P. minuta, and 
P. ruficollis) the elongated tertials are not acuminate, as in the larger species, but 
have more or less broadly rounded tips, and are relatively longer, extending much 
more nearly to tips of the longest primaries than in the larger species. 
