GRALLATORES. 393 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a specimen, from Hudson's Bay, in the British Museum. 



Colour. — Upper plumage dark hair-brown, with green reflections, dotted on the edges of 

 the scapulars, tertiaries, and a few of the lesser coverts with whitish triangular specks, each 

 speck having a dark margin. Quills blackish-brown*. Tail and its coverts white ; three 

 broad black bars towards the ends of the central tail feathers, fewer on the more exterior 

 ones, and merely a spot or two on the two outer pairs. Superciliary line and cheeks 

 whitish, with dusky streaks : a dark stripe on the lores. Front of the neck, breast, and 

 flanks broccoli-brown, with dark central stripes : rest of the under plumage pure white. 



Form. — Bill straight ; nasal grooves extending more than half its length. Wings rather 

 longer than the tail. Tail square, the middle pair of feathers alone slightly longer than the 

 others. Web connecting the outer and middle toes two lines deep. Inner toe almost quite 

 free. 









Dimensions. 









Length, total 

 „ of tail 

 „ of wing 



Inch. 

 . 8 

 2 

 . 5 



Lin. 

 9 

 6 

 6 



Length of bill above 

 ,, of bill to rictus 

 ,, of tarsus 



Inch. 



1 

 . 1 



1 



Lin. 

 4 

 5 

 3 



Inch. Lin, 



Length of middle toe . .1 



„ of middle nail . 2 



,, of hind toe and nail 4 



— R. 



[162.] 7. Totanus chloropygius. (Vieillot.) Green-rump Tatler. 



Genus, Totanus, Bech. 



Solitary Sandpiper {Trinya solitaria). Wils., vii., p. 53, pi. 58, f. 3. 

 Totanus chloropygius. Bonap. Syn., No. 263. 

 Attickew-shaeshaeshew. Cree Indians. 



This bird has an extensive range, having- been found breeding on the high 

 grounds of Pennsylvania, and on the northern extremity of the continent, as 

 well as in most of the intermediate districts. It frequents the gravelly banks 

 of rivers singly or in pairs, and runs swiftly before the traveller, seldom taking 

 wing until hard pressed. Its motions bear considerable resemblance to those 

 of the common motacilla. Its eggs are deposited on the beach, no nest being 

 formed. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a female, killed at Great Bear Lake, lat. 64^° N., May 14, 1826. 



Colour. — Upper plumage, including the central pair of tail feathers, dark hair-brown, 

 slightly glossed with green, and interspersed with small marginal, triangular, white spots; 



* Neither greater nor lesser quills are bordered or marked with white. — R. 



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