BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 3805 
Downy young.—¥orehead and sides of head pale buff to deep brown- 
1 buff, the former with a median streak of black, this, however, not 
tending to base of bill; a narrow loral streak and an irregular auric- 
ar spot of blackish; crown and occiput mixed black and cinnamon- 
own or light snuff brown, dotted laterally with pale buff or buffy 
iitish; back and rump mixed black and cinnamon-brown or light snuff 
own, spangled with pale grayish buff or buffy whitish dots, the wings 
ostly light brown; under parts immaculate dull white, the chin, 
roat, and foreneck more or less tinged with buff, sometimes deeply 
iffy. 
Adult male.—Wing, 94.5-100 (97.9); tail, 37-40.5 (38.6); exposed 
umen, 20.5-23 (21.8); tarsus, 19-21 (20.5); middle toe, 15-17.5 
6.7).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 98-102 (100.7); tail, 37-41.5 (39.2); exposed 
iumen, 21.5-22 (21.8); tarsus, 19.5-20.5 (20.2); middle toe, 16.5-17 
6.8).° 
Breeding in northeastern Siberia (Wrangel Island; Pitlekaj; 
rovidence Bay; Cape Serdze) migrating southward through south- 
istern Siberia, Japan, China, etc., to India (Elephant Point, Ran- 
yon; Akyab; Tenasserim; Arakan coast); casual in Alaska (Choris 
eninsula, summer of 1849; Point Barrow 2). 
[Platalea] pygmea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 140 (‘‘Surinam”; ex Mus. 
Adolphus Frederici, 1754¢,); ed. 12, i, 1766, 231—Hzrrmann, Tab. Affinat. 
Anim., 1783, 185.—Gme.in, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 615.—Latnam, Index 
Orn., ii, 1790, 669. 
Platalea pygmaca Taunsere, K. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Holm., 1816, 194-198, 
pl. 6.—SrzpHens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 645.—LarresnayeE, Rev. 
Zool., 1842, 402.—LitiyeBore, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 299.—Prizetn, Journ. 
fiir Orn., 1860, 460. 
Platalea pygmea Sonnint and Vizrt10T, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxi, 1819, 571. 
Eurinorhynchus pygmzus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49.—Harr- 
LAUB, Rev. Zool., 1841, 5; v, 1842, 36-38, pl. 2, fig. 1 (monogr.).—Buyts, 
Journ, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxv, 1856, 445.—_SctatErR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1859, 201 (n. e. coast Asia?) —Swinnog, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 409 
(Amoy, China).—Braxiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1872, 221 (Yezo, Japan).— 
Goutp, Birds Asia, vii, pt. 24, 1872, pl. 66 and text—Ripeway, Bull. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., no. 24 (Nom. N. Am. Birds), 1881, 85, no. 542* (Point Barrow, 
Alaska).—Bzan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 165 (Port Providence, Plover 
Bay, Siberia, Sept.).—Biaxziston, Amend. List Birds Japan, 1884, 11. 
E[urinorhynchus] pygmzus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 580. 
Eu{rinorhynchus| pygmzus Buytu, Cat. Birds Mus Asiat. Soc., 1849, 270. 
[Eurinorhynchus] pygmzus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 51, no. 10323. 
Eurinorhynchus pygmaeus Hartuaus, Journ. fir Orn., 1859, 325 (crit.), 328 
(monogr.). 
@ Five specimens. 
b Three specimens. 
¢ Linnzeus’s type was in the collection of the Museum of Upsala, Sweden, as late 
1860, according to Lilljeborg (Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 299). 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 3——21 
