PHEGOKNIS. 



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The Chilian Sandpiper, or Mitchell's Slenderfoot as it was fantastically called by its 

 discoverer, may easily be distinguished from the other two Short-winged Sandpipers by its 

 not possessing a hind toe. 



It is described as a marsh bird inhabiting the Andes of Peru (Taczanowski, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 561), Bolivia (Philippi, Reise Wiiste Atacama, p. 163), and Chili, 

 whence it was originally described by Fraser, and where it has since been obtained by 

 Mr. Berkeley James (Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 403). Des Murs received it in a 

 collection of birds from California, but the locality is probably erroneous. 



In consequence of its not having a hind toe it has been associated by some ornitholo- 

 gists with the Plovers ; but the shape of the bill, the position of the nostrils, the white 

 stripe behind the eye, the chestnut nape, the dark throat, the white band across the breast, 

 the bars on some of the tail-feathers, the metallic gloss on the upper parts, the cleft toes, 

 the short tarsus, and the short blunt wings, all suggest a much nearer relationship to the 

 Painted Snipes. 



The young in first plumage, of which an example was obtained by Mr. Berkeley James 

 in Chili, are remarkably like Peale's Sandpiper, the feathers of the upper parts, including 

 the wing-coverts and tertials, having dark subterminal bars and chestnut margins, which 

 more or less take the form of spots on the tertials. The peculiar coloration of the head 

 of the adult is also absent. 



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PHEGORNIS CANCELLATUS. 



PEALE'S SANDPIPER. (Plate XVII.) 



Phegornis corpore subtus fasciato : halluce parvo. 



Diagnosis. 



Only three or four examples of this species are known. 



Variations. 



Tringa cancellata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 675 (1788). 



Phalaropus cancellatus (Gmel.), Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 777 (1790). 



Tringa parvirostris, Peak, U.S. Explor. Exped. 1838-1842, viii. p. 235 (1848). 



Actiturus rufescenSj var. /3, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 597 (1856). 



Totanus cancellatus (Gmel.), Gray, Cat. Birds Pacific Ocean, p. 61 (1859). 



v.Echmoihynchus parvirostris (Pea/e), Coues, Birds of the North-TJ'est, p. 506 (1874). 



Synonymy. 



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