13 ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. 



3. Totanus melanoleucos. Licht. et Vieill. 



Soolopax melanoleuca, Omel. 



Soolopax vociferus, Wils. Am. Orn. pi. 58, f. 5. 



Chorlito a croupion blanc, Azara, No. 394. 



Totanus solitarius, Vieill, 



White-ramped snipe, Lath. 



Maldonado, Rio Plata. 



4. Totanus fuliginosus. Gould. 

 T. coipore supra cauddque fidiginoso-griseis ; alis fuscis ; gutture albo ; pectore 

 kypochondriisque plumbeo-griseis ; abdomine medio, caudce tegminibus inferioribus 

 albis, Mis obscure, his plane grisescenti fusco fasciatis ; rostri rubescenti fusco ; 

 pedibus obscure olivaceo fuscis. 



Long. tot. 9| unc. alee, 6| ; caudm, 3 ; tarsi, \\ ; rostri, §. 



The whole of the upper surface and tail sooty-grey ; wings dull brown ; throat 

 white ; chest and flanks leaden grey ; centre of the abdomen and under 

 tail coverts white, the former indistinctly, and the latter distinctly, barred 

 with greyish brown ; bill, reddish-brown ; feet, dark olive-brown. 



Habitat, Galapagos Archipelago {October). 



This species appear quite distinct from any described one. 



Himantopus nigricollis. Vieill. 



Himantopus nigricollis, Vieill. Ency. Meth. 340. 

 Reourvirostra himantopus, Wils. Am. Orn. pi. 58. f. 2. 



My specimens were obtained from the provinces bordering the Plata. On 

 the great swampy plains and fens which lie between Buenos Ayres and Bahia 

 Blanca, it is very numerous in small, and occasionally, in large flocks. This 

 plover, which appears as if mounted on stilts, has been wrongfully accused of 

 inelegance ; when wading about in shallow water, which is its favourite resort, its 

 gait is far from awkward. In a flock it utters a noise, which singularly resem- 

 bles the cry of a pack of small dogs in full chase : when I travelled across the 

 above mentioned plains, I was more than once startled, when lying awake at 

 night, at the distant sound, and thought the wild Indians were coming. 



Tringa rufescens. Vieill. 



Tringa rufescens, Vieill., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 34. p. 4?0. 



-Ency. Meth. Orn. p. 1090. 

 -Gal. des Ois. pi. 238. 

 -Yarrel, Lin. Trans. 

 -Gould ; Birds of Europe, pi. 



Monte Video, Rio Plata. 



