392 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a male, killed on the Saskatchewan, May, 1827- 



Colour. — Upper plumage mostly blackish-brown and wood-brown, the latter being mar- 

 ginal. On the head and fore part of the back the wood-brown edgings are narrower ; but on 

 the nape and wing coverts that colour predominates, the dark brown forming bars on the 

 latter, and also on the tertiaries, scapulars, and lateral tail coverts. The spurious wings, 

 greater quills, and their coverts, are blackish-brown : the shaft of the first primary white ; 

 two or three of the posterior primaries and the secondaries are tipped with white, and the 

 latter are spotted on their borders with the same. Posterior part of the back and most of 

 the tail coverts pitch-black. Tail feathers buff-orange, tipped with white ; the outer ones 

 more broadly and distinctly barred with black: the orange is replaced on the outer web of 

 the exterior feather by white, and on the central pair by broccoli-brown. Chin and belly 

 white ; under tail coverts slightly tinged with brown. Neck beneath and breast soiled wood- 

 brown, the former streaked, the latter crossed by arrow-headed marks of blackish-brown, 

 and the flanks and insides of the wings regularly barred with the same. Bill blackish 

 above, yellow on the sides and below. Irides dusky. Legs wax-yellow. 



Form. — BUI straight, short Nasal grooves reaching nearly to the point, which is hard 

 and curves down. Wings two inches shorter than the long, graduated tail. Legs rather 

 stout ; the thumb longer, and articulated lower than in the other Totani. Inner toe free. 

 Web connecting the outer and middle toes short and thick. 



Dimensions 

 Of the male. 



Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. 



Length, total . . 13 Length of bill to rictus . 1 6 Length of middle nail . 3± 



„ of tail . .36 „ of naked thigh .10 „ of hind toe .04 



„ of wing . .07 „ of tarsus . .20 „ of hind nail . .0 2 



„ of bill above .14 „ of middle toe . 1 



The female is a little longer, has a longer wing, and a proportionally shorter tarsus. 



[161.] 6. Totanus ochropus. (Temm.) White-tailed Taller. 



Genus, Totanus, Beciist. 



Green Sandpiper. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 475, No. 389 ? 



Chevalier Cul-blanc (Totanus ochropus). Temm., ii., p. 651. 



An individual of this species exists among a collection of birds from the fur- 

 countries, sent to the British Museum by the Hudson's Bay Company. Pennant 

 says he also observed it among the birds collected by Mr. Kuckan in North 

 America. 



