BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 3843 
Aegialodes ¢ Heinz, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 327. 
(New name for Gambetta Kaup, not Koch, on grounds of purism.) 
Medium-sized Tringine (wing 144-160 mm.) with exposed culmen 
nearly as long as tarsus, the latter a little more than one and a half 
times as long as middle toe without claw, and with secondaries white. 
Bill rather slender, straight, its depth at base equal to less than 
one-seventh the length of exposed culmen, the latter nearly as long 
as tarsus; nasal groove rather broad, extending halfway to tip 
of maxilla; nostril basal (very nearly in contact with loral antia), 
slit-like, overhung by a membrane. Wing rather long, pointed, the 
longest primary (outermost) exceeding secondaries by about one- 
fourth the length of wing. Tail much more than one-third as long 
as wing, truncate; rectrices, 12. Tarsus nearly to quite one-third as 
long as wing, scutellate anteriorly and posteriorly; bare portion of 
tibia more than half the length of the tarsus, scutellate anteriorly 
and posteriorly; a distinct web uniting basal phalanges of outer and 
middle toes, and a much smaller web between inner and middle toes. 
Coloration.—Under parts, upper tail-coverts, and rump mostly 
white; secondaries white and proximal primaries broadly tipped with 
white. - 
Range.—Palearctic Region. (Monotypic.) 
TOTANUS TOTANUS (Linnnezus). 
RED-SHANK, 
Adults in summer (sexes alike)—Above grayish brown (between 
light hair brown and drab), the pileum and hindneck streaked with 
blackish, the back and scapulars streaked or irregularly marbled 
with the same, the markings assuminz a more transverse form (often 
that of regular bars) on posterior scapulars and tertials; smaller 
wing-coverts mostly grayish brown, like back, etc., indistinctly 
margined with paler, the middle and greater coverts similar but 
usually more or less barred with dusky and whitish; secondaries with 
terminal half (approximately) white, sometimes with a few concealed 
dusky bars, the basal portion barred with dusky and white or 
brownish gray; alule, primary coverts, and longer (distal) primaries 
dusky or dull black, the innermost (proximal) primaries extensively 
white distally, irregularly barred or vermiculated with dusky; shaft 
of outermost primary white, of the others dusky; lower back and 
rump white, sometimes nearly immaculate but usually sparsely 
flecked, at least beneath the surface, with grayish or dusky; upper 
tail-coverts and tail white, barred with dusky, the middle pair of 
rectrices more or less tinged with brownish gray; an orbital ring 
of dull white, interrupted at anterior angle of eye; sides of head and 
@ Alysadwdys, found on or near the shore. (Richmond.) 
