168 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



1.05. Sab. Pacific coast of America, from the Galapagos and Lower 

 California to Aleutian Islands and Norton Sound, Alaska, and Com- 

 mander Islands, Kamtschatka; also, the more eastern Pacific islands 

 (Pomotu group, Marquesas, Tahiti, Tongatabu, Palmyra, Samoa, Upolu, 



Fiji, etc.) 259. H. incanus (Gmel.). Wandering Tatler. 



a 2 . Nasal groove (measured from frontal feathers) only about one-half as long as 

 the exposed culmen ; upper tail-coverts distinctly barred with white. 



Summer adult : Belly and under tail-coverts immaculate white, the dark 

 bars of other lower parts narrower than in S. incanus ; otherwise simi- 

 lar to that, species, but gray of a browner shade ; size smaller. Sab. 

 Shores and islands of the western Pacific, from Australia, Borneo, etc., 

 to Kamtschatka (mainland). 



H. brevipes (Vieill.). Polynesian Tatler. 1 



Genus PAVONCELLA Leach. (Page 148, pi. XLIX., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Above varied with black, buff, and gray, the scapulars and tertials obliquely 

 barred ; beneath white, varied on chest and throat ; inner webs of primaries finely 

 mottled toward base ; three outermost tail-feathers plain, the rest barred ; sides of 

 rump white. Adult male : Colors varying with the individual, scarcely two being 

 alike; the "cape" usually glossy black, ochraceous, or whitish, the "ruff" usually 

 chestnut, glossy black, buff, whitish, or ochraceous, these colors either plain, 

 streaked, or barred, according to the individual. Adult female: No "ruff" or 

 " cape," and head completely feathered; plumage barred with blackish, buff, white, 

 and rusty, the belly and lower tail-coverts usually immaculate white. Young : 

 Back and scapulars brownish black, the feathers bordered with buff or ochraceous ; 

 top of head ochraceous streaked with black ; lower parts plain buffy anteriorly, 

 whitish posteriorly. Length 10.00-12.50, wing 6.40, tail 2.60, culmen 1.25, tarsus 

 1.75, middle toe, with claw, 1.40. Eggs 1.71 X 1-20, light olive or olive-buff, spotted 

 with vandyke-brown or bistre. Sab. More northern portions of eastern hemisphere ; 

 occasional in eastern United States (Maine, Massachusetts, Long Island, Ohio, 

 etc.) 260. P. pugnax (Linn.). Ruff. 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson. (Page 148, pi. LI., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult: Above light brownish, the feathers more ochraceous toward edges, 

 spotted and barred with blackish ; crown blackish, divided by a median line of 

 buff; rest of head and neck ochraceous or buffy, streaked with dusky, except chin 

 and throat, which are plain whitish ; tail-feathers (except middle pair) light buff, 

 broadly tipped with white, marked near ends with a broad black spot, and, anterior 



1 Totanue brevipes Vieill., Nouv. Diet. N. H. vi. 1817, 410. HeteraetiUs brevipes Stejn., Orn. Kxpl. 

 Kamt. 1885, 137. 



