822 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 96 (Mississippi Valley range and records).—CHAaPpMaNn, 
Auk, v, 1888, 395.—American OrnirHotoaists’ Union Commirrze, Supple- 
ment to Check List, 1889, 7 (Check List no. 258a); Check List, 2nd ed., 
1895, no. 258a.—Brryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2nd ser., ii, 1889, 
273 (near La Paz, San Quentin Bay, and Magdalena Bay, Lower California, 
winter resident).—Mrrriam, N. Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 92 (Snake River, 
Idaho, July; Great Salt Lake, Utah, breeding).—Fisner (A. K.), N. Am. 
Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 23 (Morro Bay, California, November).—Ricumonp and 
Knowuron, Auk, xi, 1894, 302 (near Moreland, Montana, Aug. 19).—Riwe- 
way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 594.—Bryer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 
(1900), 96 (coast of Louisiana, common resident).—Jonzs, Wilson Bull., 
Nn. 8., xiii, 1906, 131 (Lorain Co., Ohio, Sept. 17, 1906).—Bisnop, Auk, xxiii, 
1906, 344 (Stony Creek, Connecticut, Aug. 15, 1897).—RozBerts, in Wil- 
cox’s Hist. Becker Co., Minnesota, 1907, 168 (breeding).—Bryrr, ALLISON, 
and Korman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 179 (coast Louisiana, resident).—KERMopE, 
Prov. Mus. Victoria, 1909, 88 (Clover Point, Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia). 
Sl[ymphemia] semipalmata inornata Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 594; 
2d ed., 1896, 588. 
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION Com- 
mitTeE, Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 368; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 122.—Jonzs 
(L.), Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 121 (Cedar Point, n. Ohio, 1 spec., Sept. 17, 
1906).—Bringe, Auk, xxix, 1912, 537 (Nahant Beach, Massachusetts, Aug. 
10, 1912).—Hatuaway, Auk, xxx, 1913, 551 (Rhode Island records). 
Genus GLOTTIS Koch. 
Glottis Kocu, Syst. baier. Zool., 1816, pp. xlii, 304. (Type, by tautonymy, 
Totanus glottis Bechstein=Scolopax nebularia Gunnerus.) 
Limicula Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 23. (Type, Scolopazx glottis 
Lataam=8. nebularia Gunnerus.) 
Limicola (emendation) Suarrs, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 480, in synonymy 
of Glottis. ° 
Limosa (not of Brisson, 1760) StsrHens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xii, pt. i, 1824, 85. 
(Type, Scolopax glottis Latham=S. nebularia Gunnerus.) 
Nea Bruupera, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pt. 2, 1828, tab. A and p. 155. (New 
name for Glottis ‘“‘ Nilsson.’’) 
Rather large Tringine (wing 176-191 mm.) with the rather stout, 
compressed, and distinctly upturned bill nearly as long as tarsus, 
the latter much more than one and a half times (nearly twice) as 
long as middle toe without claw, and with nasal groove extending 
decidedly less than half way to tip of maxilla. 
Bill nearly as long as tarsus, stout (its depth at base equal to about 
one-seventh the length of exposed culmen), compressed (decidedly 
deeper than wide at base) slightly but decidedly upturned or recurved 
for distal half, the extreme tip of maxilla slightly but distinctly 
decurved; nasal groove extending much less than half way to tip of 
maxilla; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally linear, pervious; loral and 
malar antiz on same vertical line (decidedly posterior to end of nostril), 
the mental antia nearly on same vertical line with anterior end of 
