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RHYNCILEA. 



Synonymy. Totanus semieollaris, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 402 (1816). 



Tringa atricapilla, Vieillot, Encycl. Meth. iii. p. 1090 (1823). 

 Rhynchsea hilairii, Valenciennes, fide Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 524 (1829). 

 Rhynchaea occidentalis, King, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 94 (1829). 

 Rhynchsea semicollaris (Vieill.), Bridges, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 118. 

 Rhynchsea curvirostris, Lichtenstein, fide Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, iii. p. 378 (1886). 



Literature. Plates. — Lesson, 111. Zool. pi. 18. 



Habits. ") 



j Durnford, Ibis, 1876, p. 164. 



Eggs. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



The South-American Painted Snipe may always be recognized by its small size, the 

 wing from the carpal joint only measuring about four instead of about five inches. In adult 

 plumage the large round white spots on the black wing-coverts are very conspicuous. 



It inhabits the Chilian subregion of the Neotropical Region. To the Straits of 

 Magellan it is probably only a summer migrant, which occasionally wanders in winter as 

 far north as Peru and Brazil. Capt. Markharn obtained it at Coquimbo in Chili (about 

 lat. 30° south), and it is recorded from Peru (Tschudi, Fauna Peruan. p. 300). I have 

 examples collected by Capt. Harrison near Buenos Ayres, and it has been recorded from 

 the province of San Paulo in Brazil. 





