886 ‘APPENDIX. 
the base of the culmen. Wing-feathers dusky; shaft of first primary white; several inner 
primaries with white area along their outer 
webs; the secondaries and greater coverts 
tipped with white. Tail-feathers like the 
back, tipped with white, and successively 
paler laterally, till the outermost are nearly 
white; upper tail-coverts also tipped with 
whitish. Bill and feet black. The young 
lack the distinctive chestnut and black mark- 
ings, though the breast may be somewhat 
suffused with pale cinnamon, and at an early 
age all the feathers of the upper parts have 
pale edgings. Wing 5.25; tail 2.25; bill 
0.70; tarsus 1.15; middle toe 0.75. <A well- 
known species of wide distribution in the 
Old World, recorded from Choris Peninsula, 
Alaska. (See Ibis, 1870, p. 384; P. Z.S. 
1871, pp. 111, 114.) Itis entirely different Fig. 562. — Mongolian Plover. 
from any other plover described in this work, and should long ago have been taken into 
the Key. 
COUES KEY, 1884. UNION LIST, 1886. 
592. Podasocys montanus. 281. Aigialitis montana. 
593. Vanellus éristatus. [269.] Vanellus vanellus. 
594. Aphriza virgata. _ | 282. Aphriza virgata. 
595. Hamatopus ostrilegus. {285.} Heematopus ostralegus. 
596. palliatus. 286. palliatus. 
597. niger. 287. bachmani. 
598. Strepsilas interpres. 283. Arenaria interpres. 
599. melanocephalus. 284. melanocephala. 
600. Recurvirostra americana. 225. Recurvirostra americana. 
601. Himantopus mexicanus. 226. Himantopus mexicanus. 
602. Steganopus wilsoni. 224. Phalaropus tricolor. 
603. Lobipes hyperboreus. 223. lobatus. 
604. Phalaropus fulicarius. 222. Crymophilus fulicarius. 
605. Philohela minor. 228. -Philohela minor. 
606. Scolopax rusticula. (227.] Scolopax rusticola. 
607. Gallinago media. [229.| Gallinago gallinago. 
608. wilsoni. 230. delicata. 
509. Macrorhampbus griseus. 231. Macrorhamphus griseus. 
610. scolopaceus. 232. scolopaceus. 
611. Micropalama himantopus. 233. Micropalama himantopus. 
612. Ereunetes pusillus. 246. Ereunetes pusillus. 
613. pusillus occidentalis. 247. occidentalis. 
614. Actodromas minutilla. 242. Tringa minutilla. 
000. [Not admitted in the List.] 
614 bis. Add: Tringa damascensis. DamasceNE Sanppirer. LonG-ToED STINT. 
Resembling the last in coloration. Shaft of first primary only, white. Middle toe and claw 
longer than tarsus or culmen; tips of outstretched toes reaching far beyond end of tail, and 
tip of tail beyond points of the folded wings; four outer pairs of tail-feathers of equal 
