PSEUDOTOTANUS GUTTIFER (NORUM.). 22 7 



After this identification had been made, my attention was called to 

 the description and plate of Totanus haughtoni Armstr. in the Ibis for 

 April 1883 (p. 133—135, pl. IV). 



It cannot be donbted that the bird described and fignred there, is 

 Nordmann's T. guttifer in winter-plumage. The structural characters 

 given agree closely with my specimen. 



We have thus been able to bring the history of this very interesting 

 form a good deal forward. The synonymy has been cleared, the summer 

 and winter-plumages described and figured, the habitat during summer 

 and winter discovered. There now rests to discover the youngs and the 

 eggs, and to fix the extent of its geographica! distribution. 



Descr. — (rf) ad. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 92808. L. Stejneger 

 No. 2088. — (Bering Island, May 22 nd , 1883.) 



Upper parts of the body, except the rump, blackish brown more 

 and less edged with whitish, as the white edges are differently worn 

 away ; thus the crown is almost uniform brownish black with a few 

 white streaks ; the neck is more uniformly and fmely streaked longitudi- 

 nally, white on the back, the light edges become broader backwards; in 

 many feathers on the latter part, the inner border of the whitish edges 

 is wared or indented, the outline of the feather being scalloped by 

 abration currespondingly. Among the dark feathers, and mostly con- 

 cealed by these, are left a number of uniform sandy gray feathers, the 

 remainders of the winter plumage. The other parts of the body are 

 white; the rump and the middle of abdomen unspottecl; sides of the 



Am nächsten mit Tot. glottis verwandt, doch ist unser Vogel kleiner, der 

 Schnabel stärker, zur Spitze nach oben gebogen, die Schwimmhaut zwischen den 

 Zehen und die Füsse 'bedeutend kürzer. Oberkörper grau, mit sparsamen weisslichen 

 Flecken. Auf dem Kopf und Nacken strichförmige auf der weissen Kehle, dem Vor- 

 derhals und der Brust grosse schwarze, tropfenartige Flecke; Schnabel schwarz. 

 Unterkörper beinahe einfarbig weiss, die spitzen, über den Schwanz hinausreichen- 

 den Schwingen schwärzlich ; mittlere Schwanzfedern mit grösseren schwärzlichen 

 Abzeichen. 



Das vorliegende Exemplar dieser sehr ausgezeichneten Art wurde .... in der 

 Umgegend von Ochozk im Monat Juli von Erman erlegt. In der Sammlung der Aka- 

 demie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg befinden sich zwei Individuen, welche 

 wahrscheinlich aus derselben Gegend sind, (von Nordmann, in Erman's Verzeichn. 

 etc. p. 17.) (The type specimen, collected by Erman is probably in the Berlin 

 Museum.) 



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