28 , BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. 



Female: Similar to male but larger. Young: Above, including wing coverts, buffy 

 greyish or dull clay color irregularly varied with duskj^ ; lower parts dull buffy whitish 

 shaded across chest with deeper greyish buff. Length 14.60-16.00, wing 8.25-9.15, 



culmen 3.17-4.70, tarsus 2.00-2.45, middle toe 1.10-1.33 Hab. Coasts of 



Eastern Asia and across to Alaska, migrating south in winter to New Zealand and 

 Australia; Lower California, casual in winter (Ridgway). Kauai. '° 



49. 1/. lappon'ica bau'eri (Naum.)- Pacific Godwit. 



Genus CAI^'IDRIS Cuvier. 



Winter-: General color above light ashy grey with more or less distinct hoary 

 edges to the feathers and blackish shaft stripes ; under parts white. Summer: Differs 

 from the winter in being mottled and not iiniform ; greater wing coverts broadly tipped 

 with white ; above light rusty, mottled and spotted with blackish on the feathers ; head, 

 neck and chest light rusty. Spring: Above light greyish coarsely spotted with black, 

 streaks of black on the neck. Young: Similar to winter adult but not so uniform 

 above. Only seen in winter plumage in Hawaii(?). Length about 8.00, wing 4.80-' 

 4.90, tail 2.25-2.30, tarsus .95, middle toe .73, culmen .90-1.00. Hab. Nearly cosmo- 

 politan. Hawaiian Islands. 



50. C. arena'ria (Linn). Sanderling, Hunakai. 



Genus NUMK'NIUS Brisson. 



Feathers of the thighs terminating i?i long bristle-like points; quills with whitish 

 or rufous on the inner edge; a central longitudinal pale band down the crown, with 

 the sides of the crown blackish brown forming a broad band down the sides of the 

 latter; auxilliaries pale cinnamon barred with wide stripes of dark brown ; upper parts 

 sooty brown and buff; tail coverts uniform cinnamon buff; lower parts dull buff; 

 cheeks, neck and breast streaked with brown. Female similar. Length about 17.00, 

 wing 9.00-9.25, tail 3.75, culmen 2.95-3.25, tarsus 2.15-2.35. Hab. Most of the islands 

 of the Pacific. Hawaiian Islands. 

 PI. XXV. , 9752. 51. N. tahitien'sis (Gmel.). Bristle -thighed Curlew, Kioea. 



Family CHARADRI'IDJ^.— Plovers. 



Genus. 

 With no spur and no facial wattles; wing less than 8.00; plumage witho.ut 

 metallic tint; head not crested; no hind toe (Page 28.) Charad'riuS. 



Genus CHARAD'RIUS Linn^us. 

 No hind toe. Adult summer: General color above mottled with black, golden 

 and ashy chin, throat and lower parts dull dusky black ; a frontal band and long eye- 



30 The specimen from which the above description was taken is in the possession of Mr. Francis Gay and was secured by him on the 

 island of Kaua The measurements are, length 17.00, wing 9.00, tail 3.00, culmen 4.10, tarsus 2.25, middle toe 1.50 (?), A fine winter specimen 

 is in ,St. Louis College cabinet. Dr. Schnuinsland also records Lhnosa tinva:-zealandirr Salv from I^vsan 



