LEONHARD STEJNEGER : PSEUDOTOTANUS GUTTIKER (NORDM.). 223 



PSEUDOTOTANUS GUTTIFER (NORDM.). 



By Leonhard Stejneger. 

 (Plate X.) 



Genus Pseudototaims x Hume. 



1875. — Pseudototaims haughtoni Hvme, Stray Feath. VI. (p. 488.) 



(type Totanus haughtoni Armstr. = T. guttifer Nordm.). 



Bill rather stout, long, longer than tarsus, culmen slightly re- 

 curved ; groove on the upper mandible only reaches the middle of the 

 bill; lower mandible with a well pronounced gonydeal angle. Malar 

 apex reaches foreward beyond the loral apex ; mentral apex reaches 

 beyond the middle of the nostrils. 



Feet not very long, moderately strong; tarsus longer than middle 

 toe with claw, scutellate in front and behind; naked part of tibise about 

 the length of the two basal articles of the middle toe, scutellate at the 

 upper end, reticulate nearer to the tibi-tarsal Joint; outer and middle 

 toes united by a large basal web, middle and inner ones by a smaller 

 membrane as large, however, as the web usual in Totanine birds bet- 

 ween the outer and middle toes; border of the toes distinctly serrated. 



Wings pointed, normally Totanine; first primary longest. 



Tau of normal length, Square. 



This Limicoline genus belongs to a group of the Totanine waders 

 characterized by the semipalmated toes, and takes a position somewhat 

 intermediate between the genera Terekia and Symphemia. The basal 

 webs are fully as well developed as in any of these recognized genera. 



Though distinct from both these genera it seems perhaps somewhat 

 nearer related to Symphemia than to Terekia, notwithstanding the fact, 

 that up to the present data the type species has been enumerated as a 

 synonym of the type of the latter genus. 



The three genera may be easily recognized by the following. 



1 From 'küoo? = false and totanus. Betöre knowing of Hume's genus and the 

 identity of Armstrong's haughtoni with guttifer, I had in niy M. S. rnade the latter 

 the type of a new genus named Pseudoglottis. This for the benetit ofthose authors 

 who might feel compelled to arnend the hybrid word Pseudototanus. 



