BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 337 
T[otanus] maculatus Maxiutian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, ii, 1833, 727 (Villa 
Vicosa, Brazil; type now in coll. Am, Mus. Nat. Hist., see Allen, Bull. Am. 
Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 271). 
Totanus chilensis Puruipr1, Anales Univers. Chile, xiv, 1857, 182 (Chile); Archiv 
fiir Nat., 1857, Bd. i, 264 (Prov. Valparaiso, Chile); Anales Mus. Nac. 
Chile, Entr. 15 (zool.), 1902, 63, pl. xxix, fig. 1. 
(?) Totanus melanoleucus frazari BrewsteR, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, no. 1, 
Sept., 1902, 65 (San Jose del Cabo, Lower California; coll. W. Brewster). — 
Mauer (W. DeW.), Bull Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 341 (Escuinapa, Sinaloa; 
crit.). 
NEOGLOTTIS FLAVIPES (Gmelin). 
YELLOW LEGS. 
Practically identical with N. melanoleuca in coloration, but much 
smaller. 
Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike).—Pileum and hindneck 
streaked with dusky grayish brown or blackish and grayish white; 
scapulars and interscapulars brownish gray irregularly spotted with 
dull black and with smaller marginal spots of white or grayish white; 
tertials brownish gray obliquely barred with black, the gray interspaces 
becoming whitish on edges; lower back and rump dusky brownish 
gray, the feathers margined terminally with white; upper tail- 
coverts white, the larger (posterior) ones broadly barred with dusky, 
otherwise with fewer and narrower bars or other markings, often 
nearly immaculate anteriorly; tail white, shaded with brownish gray 
on middle rectrices, rather broadly barred with dusky, the bars 
narrower and more broken on lateral rectrices, on inner webs of which 
they are confined to distal half; anterior lesser wing-coverts dark 
brownish gray or dusky narrowly margined with white, the more 
posterior ones with broader white margins and occasional small white 
spots; middle and greater coverts brownish gray and dusky (either 
predominating) spotted with paler gray and white; secondaries 
deep brownish gray, narrowly margined with white; primary coverts 
and primaries fuscous or fuscous-black, the shorter (proximal) 
primaries more grayish, narrowly margined with white; shaft of outer- 
most primary pale grayish brown basally, passing into white, or 
nearly white, distally; sides of head and neck and entire under 
parts white, the lower breast, abdomen, anal region, and most of 
under tail-coverts immaculate, the sides of head'and neck and fore- 
neck streaked with dusky, the chest spotted with dusky, and the 
sides barred with the same; flanks nearly immaculate; lateral and 
posterior under tail-coverts more or less barred with dusky; anterior 
half (more or less) of superciliary stripe sparsely and minutely flecked 
with dusky or, sometimes, nearly immaculate, the posterior portion 
narrowly but distinctly streaked with dusky; a broad loral stripe of 
grayish flecked with dusky, extending from bill to eye; eyelids white; 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 823 
