228 LEONHARD STE.1NEGER : PSEUDOTOTANUS GUTTIFER (NORDM.). 



head and neck, forehead and superciliaris heavily streaked with blackish, 

 most densely on the lores ; chin with a few faint roundish spots, throat 

 and fore neck strongly marked with terminal , somewhat lanceolate, 

 streaks; on the jugulum and the breast the spots become subterminal 

 broadening so as to form rather large rounded drops with asomewhat 

 flattened basal border ; on the anterior half of the flanks the spots are 

 still broader, almost assuming the character of cross-bars. Primaries 

 blackish brown, from the seventh lighter brownish ash-colored, as are 

 also the secondaries, and with white edges, which gradually increase in 

 breadth on the interior web of the secondaries the nesrer they are to the 

 body ; the white edges on the tertials have indented borders and the 

 feathers are scalloped; primary coverts only with a very narrow white 

 terminal edge ; the other upper wingcoverts with rather broad white 

 edges ; shafts of the primaries brown, medially lighter, that of the first 

 onewholly white; all under wing-coverts uniform pure white. Tail light- 

 ashy grey, whitish at the base, and indistinctly mottled with darker grey 

 along the edges which are whitish, the mottlings hardly visible on the 

 middle pair ; shafts of rectrices white, even those of the middle pair ; 

 upper tail coverts white, submarginally marked with dusky ; under tail- 

 coverts white with two or three small and irregularly placed dark spots 

 or streaks. 



Total length (387%); wing 173 %; tail-feathers 67 '>%; exposed 

 culmen 53 m j m ; tarsus 43 m j mi -, middle toe with claw 35 m j m . l 



A plate representing my specimen has been prepared and is here 

 appended, showing the summer-plumage of the species, as compared 

 with pl. IV of the «Ibis» for 1883, which illustrated the winter-plumage. 



The geographical distribution of this rare wader is still only im- 

 perfectly known. Erman collected the type specimen at Okotsk, and 

 I myself procured a specimen at Bering Island and shot another near 

 Petropaulski in Kamtschatka, so that in all probability it breeds on both 

 sides of the Okotsk sea. A few specimens were collected by Dr. Arm- 

 strong in December 1875 near the mouth of the Rangoon river (the 

 types of Ps. haughtoni), and two other were procured by the same 

 gentleman in January 1S77 near Amherst in British Burma, while another 

 specimen was obtained by Mr. Hume in the Galcutta market in De- 



1 This measurement disagrees greatly with that given by v. Nordmann, l,inch, 

 the latter being probably only a misprint. 



