BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 37k 
Totanus oceanicus Lesson, Compl. Guvr. Buffon (Lévéque ed.), xx, 1847, 244 
(Oualan Island),—Harrtavus, Archiv fiir Nat., 1852, Bd.i, 121, 135 (Marquesas; 
Caroline Islands); Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 167 (Bonin and Marianne Islands), 
168 (Caroline Islands). 
[Gambetta] oceanica Bonararts, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 
[Heteroscelus] oceanicus Heine and Retcuznow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 
327 (St. Savoi, Samoan Islands). 
Actitis pulverulentus (not Totanus pulverulentus Miller) Licutensrein, Nom. 
Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (Hawaiian Islands). 
Totanus polynesix Peaue, Rep. U.S. Expl. Exped. (Wilkes), Birds, 1848, 237, 
(Fiji Islands; Paumotu Group).—Hartiaus, Archiv fiir Nat., 1852, Bd. i, 
120 (Fiji; Tonga; Samoa; Society Islands; Paumotu; Marquesas Islands; Mathew 
Island); Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 169, 170 (Tonga; Samoa; Society Is.; Paumotu 
Group). 
Totanus semipalmatus (not Scolopax semipalmata Gmelin) Strests, Am. Nat., 
xi, 1877, 71, in text (Christmas Island). 
' Genus ACTITIS Illiger. 
Actitis ILtigER, Prodromus Orn., 1811, 262. (Type, as designated by Stejneger. 
1885, and by elimination, Tringa hypoleucos Linneus; see Stejneger, Bull, 
U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 131.) 
Tringoides Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. H. N. Y., ii, ‘1828’ (Nov., 1827), 326° 
(Type, as designated by Richmond, 1917, Tringa macularia Linneus.) 
Tryngodes (emendation) Heinz and RetcHenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 
327. 
Guinetta Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840,68. (Type, Tringa hypoleucos Linneus.) 
Small Tringine (wing about 89-110 mm.) with the strongly 
rounded or graduated tail very nearly to more than half as long as 
wing; nasal groove extending for two-thirds the distance to tip of 
maxilla; exposed culmen as long as tarsus, and wing with a broad 
white band extending obliquely across inner webs of remiges. 
Bill straight, moderately stout, its depth at base equal to about 
one-sixth the length of exposed culmen, the latter as long as tarsus; 
nasal groove extending for about two-thirds the distance to tip of 
maxilla, broad basally but very narrow anterior to nostril; tip of 
both culmen and gonys slightly but distinctly convex, especially the 
former. Wing moderately long and pointed, the outermost primary 
exceeding the distal secondaries by about one-half the length of wing. 
Tail slightly less to slightly more than half as long as wing, strongly 
rounded or graduated; rectrices 12. Tarsus as long as or longer 
than middle toe with claw, much more than one-fourth as long as 
wing, scutellate anteriorly and posteriorly, but scutella of planta 
tarsi smaller, narrower, and much less distinct; bare portion of tibia 
about half as long as middle toe, scutellate posteriorly; lateral toes 
much shorter than middle toe, the inner slightly shorter than the 
outer; a small but distinct web between basal phalanges of outer 
and middle toes, but none between middle and inner toes. 
