TOTANUS. 



Totanus oceanicus, Lesson, Compl. (Euvr. Buffon, p. 244 (1847). 



Totanus polyuesise, Peak, Zool. U. States Exploring Exp. 1838-42, Birds, p. 237 (1848). 



Gambetta fuligiuosa (Gould), ~\ 



~ , . . /r . vBonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 597 (1856). 



Gambetta Oceania {Lesson), J r K ' 



Totanus undulatus (Licht.), Verreaux, Rev. Mag. Zool. I860, p. 457. 



Heteractitis incanus (Gmel.), Stejneger, Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. p. 132 (1885). 



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Plates. — Baird, Cassin, & Lawrence, Birds N. Amer. pi. lxxxviii. 

 Habits. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 290. 

 Eggs — Unknown. 



Literature. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



The Wandering Tattlers differ from all their congeners, except from the Willet Specific 

 (T. semvpalmatus), in having dark grey axillaries without any bars across them. The total 

 absence of white on the quills easily distinguishes them from their larger ally. From each 

 other they are not always easy to distinguish, though some of the differences are what are 

 called structural. 



The American Wandering Tattler breeds in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, and 

 passes along the coast of California and the Galapagos Islands (Dr. Habel, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. ix. p. 503) to winter in the Polynesian Islands. According to Stejneger both forms 

 occur on Behring Island. 



I have examples from the Fiji, the Samoa, and the Society Islands, and have also 

 examined three examples brought by Mr. Young from the latter; but as the two forms have 

 been confused by the majority of ornithologists it is impossible, in most cases, to tell to 

 which the records apply. 



I have not seen young in first plumage of the American form of this species ; but in 

 winter the breast, flanks, and axillaries are greyish brown, a little paler than the upper 

 parts, and the rest of the underparts are white. 



TOTANUS INCANUS BREVIPES. 



ASIATIC WANDERING TATTLER. 



Totanus incanus tarso postico scutellato : narium sulcis non nisi rostri dimidio extendeutibus. 



Diagnosis. 



The two forms of this species appear to me completely to intergrade. 



Variations. 



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