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ones dusky passing into white at tips; under parts entirely immac- 
ulate white; bill, legs, and feet dull or dusky reddish. 
Downy young.—Upper parts pale grayish buff irregularly and rather 
sparsely mottled with blackish; under parts immaculate white. 
Adult male.—Wing, 350-401 (381.7); tail, 116-134 (124.3); culmen, 
63-72 (68.1); greatest depth of bill, 26.5-29.5 (28.1); tarsus, 31-34.5 
(32.9); middle toe, 22-24 (22.6).2 . 
Adult female.—Wing, 338-358 (346); tail, 101.5-110.5 (106.6); cul- 
men, 52-57 (55); greatest depth of bill, 22-24 (22.9); tarsus, 25~29 
(27.6); middle toe, 18-19 (18.4).° 
Breeding along Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, from 
New Jersey (Little Egg Harbor, Long Beach, Brigantine Beach), 
formerly (up to 1832) northward to Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, 
to Texas; migrating southward to eastern Nicaragua (Los Sabalos), 
coast of British Guiana, coast of Venezuela (Margarita Island), Trini- 
dad, and coast of northeastern Brazil (Ilha Grande; Rio Sao Fran- 
cisco); wintering northward to Gulf coast of United States; casual, 
usually after storms at sea, northward to Bay of Fundy, and inland 
near Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York, fall of 1893; Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia; Chester, South Carolina, Sept. 10, 1882; 
Obion County, Tennessee; casual or occasional in Cuba and St. Croix. 
[Rynchops] nigra Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 138 (coast of South Caro- 
lina; based on The Cut Water Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 1731, 90, pl. 90; 
etc.); ed. 12, i, 1766, 228.—Gutin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 611. 
Rynchops nigra Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 243 (Woods Hole, 
Massachusetts, 1 spec., Aug. 19, 1879).—AmERican OrNniITHOLOGISTS’ UNion, 
Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 80; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 48.—Baee, 
Auk, xi, 1894, 162 (near Whitesboro, Oneida Co., New York, 1 spec., fall of 
1893).—Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 74 (Cuba; St. Croix; West Indian references); 
Birds West Ind., 1889, 275.—Scuicx, Auk, vii, 1890, 327 (Seven Mile Beach, 
New Jersey, breeding).—Bage, Auk, xi, 1894, 162 (near Whitesboro, Oneida 
Co., New York, 1 spec., fall of 1893).—Ruoaps, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
1895, 466 (Obion Co., Tennessee, 1 spec.).—Roxsinson, Proc. U. 8. Nat. 
Mus., xviii, 1895, 654 (Margarita I., Venezuela, summer; habits).—Bryer, 
Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 87 (coast Louisiana, resident). 
R{ynchops] nigra Ripeway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 49. 
[Rhynchops] nigra LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 802.—Covrs, Key N.: Am. 
Birds, 1872, 324.—Sciarer and Sauvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 147.—Cory, 
List Birds, West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 33 (Cuba; St. Croix?).— 
SHarpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 1838—Forses and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. 
Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 56. 
Rhynchops nigra Winson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 85, pl. 60, fig. 4—Nurratn, Man. 
Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 616——AupuBon, Orn. Biog., iv, 
1838, 203; Synopsis, 1839, 314; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 67, pl. 428.— 
Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 60.—Grrnarpt, Naumannia, iv, 
1854, 193 (n. Florida).—LawreEncg, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 
1858, 866; Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1866, 299 (vicinity New York City). —Barrp, 
Rep. U. 8. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 28 (Brazos, Texas); Cat. 
N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 697.—GunpLacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 348 (Cuba); 
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@ Ten specimens, > Four specimens. 
