BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 367 
the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, from Kamchatka to Australia, 
Borne; 6tG yas apaowmnetuleienelendnienniae Heteroscelus brevipes (extralimital).¢ 
HETEROSCELUS INCANUS (Gmelin). 
WANDERING TATTLER, 
Adults in swmmer (sexes alike).—Upper parts plain, deep slate-gray 
(or between slate-gray and deep neutral gray), the upper tail-coverts 
sometimes narrowly margined with whitish; primaries and primary 
coverts dull blackish or dusky, the former with shafts brown on outer, 
white on inner, surface, the outermost, however, with shaft white on 
outer side also; a rather well-defined superciliary stripe of grayish 
white, and a dusky loral stripe, from base of maxilla to anterior 
angle of eye; suborbital region grayish white, narrowly and indis- 
tinetly streaked with dusky grayish, the auricular region similar but 
more decidedly grayish, especially the upper portion; under parts 
white, the foreneck streaked, the remainder of under surface (except 
chin and throat) barred with dusky slate color; axillars and under 
wing-coverts white, barred and spotted with dusky slate color; bill 
dusky, more brownish basally (greenish horn color with base dull 
yellow in life); iris dark brown; legs and feet light brownish (yellow 
in life). 
Winter plumage.—Upper parts slightly lighter slate-gray than in 
summer; under parts without streaks or bars, the white shaded with 
slate-grayish on foreneck, chest, and sides. 
Young.—Similar to the winter plumage, but tertials, scapulars, 
and upper tail-coverts indistinctly spotted with white along edges, 
and slate-gray of sides, etc., faintly mottled with white. 
Adult male.—Wing, 161-174 (169.5); tail, 71-77.5 (74.4); exposed 
culmen, 34—-40.5 (87.9); tarsus, 32-34 (32.9); middle toe, 26-28 (27).® 
@ Totanus brevipes Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 410 (no locality); 
Cassin, Orn. U. 8. Expl. Exped., 1858, 339.—[Gambetta] brevipes Bonaparte, Compt. 
Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. Heteroscelus brevipes, part, Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 
ix, 1858, 734.— Heteractttis brevipes Stejneger, Bull. 29, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 137 (Com- 
mander Islands; synonymy; crit.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 1898, 281 (Kuril 
Islands); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 449.—Totanus incanus brevipes 
Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1887, pp. xxiii, 361.— Heteractitis incanus brevipes 
Nikolski, Faun. Sakhal., 1889, 265; Hartert, Ibis, 1904, 427 (upper Lena River, 
Siberia).— Heteroscelus incanus brevipes Mathews, Birds Austral., iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 
1913, 207.—Tringa brevipes Mathews, Birds Austral., iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, pl. 
207.—Totanus incanus (not Scolopax incana Gmelin) and Heteroscelus incanus of 
numerous authors.—Trynga glareola (not Tringa glareola Linnzus) Pallas, Zoogr. 
Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 194, pl. 60.—Totanus pedestris, part, Lesson, Traité d’Orn.» 
1831, 552.—Totanus pulverulentus Miller, Naturk. Verh., 1844, 152 (Timor); Tem- 
minck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, 1849, 109, pl. 65.—[Gambetta] pulveru- 
lenta Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597; Gould, Handb. Birds Austral., ii, 
1865, 268.—Actitis pulverulenta Dybowski and Parvex, Journ. fir Orn., 1868, 337.— 
Totanus griseiceps Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848, 39 (Port Essington, Australia). 
> Ten specimens. 
