224 LEONHARD STEJNEGER 



Synopsis. 



a 1 ) Bill extremely long, longer than tarsus plus the two basal ar- 

 ticles of tbe middle toe; nakecl portion of tibise reticulate in front; 

 feathering on the mental angle not reaching as far forwarcl as the 

 feathering of the forehead or the bind border of the nostrils ; groove 

 on the upper mandible long, almost to the tip. 



Terekia. 



a 2 ) Bill never longer than tarsus plus the first basal article of the 

 middle toe; naked portion of tibise scutellate in front above ; feathering 

 on the mental angle reaches far in front of the feathering of the fore- 

 head, and beyoncl the middle of the nostrils; groove on upper mandible 

 does not reach beyond the middle of the bill. 



b 1 ) Gulmen recurved, longer than tarsus. 



Pseudototanus. 



b 2 ) Gulmen straight, shorter than tarsus. 



Symphemia. 



Pseudototanus guttifera (Nordm.) 



1835. — Totanus guttifer Nordmann, in Erman's Verzeichn. Thiere, 



Pflanz. Reise um die Erde p. 17. 

 1854. — Xenus guttifer Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 91. 

 1856. — ■ Terekia guttifera Bonaparte, Gomt. Rend. XLIII. p. 597. 

 1876. — Totanus haughtoni Armstrong, Stray Feath. IV. (p. 344). — 



Harting, Ibis 1883, p. 133, pl. IV (winter plumage). 

 1878. — Pseudototanus haughtoni Hume, Stray Feath. VI. (p. 488). — 



Id. Game-B. India III. (p. 403) pl. — (1880). 



A new specific name was prepared for this bird, besides the new 

 generic term, as I had not beenable to find any description which would 

 fit. Nor could I in any list detect any recognized species which it could 

 possibly be. Swinhoe's lists of Chinese birds, Blakiston's of those frorn 

 Japan, and Taczanowski's papers on the avifauna of Eastern Siberia did 

 not contain any name with which it could be identified. Even Gray's 

 «Hand-List» and Schlegel's «Gatalogue of Scolopaces», Mus. P. B., failed. 

 Thinking it rather iniprobable, however, that so conspicuous a form 



