GRALLATORES. 



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Total length, about ten and a half inches ; wing, six and a half 

 inches ; tail, three and one-fourth inches. 



Younger birds have the plumage of the upper parts as above, but 

 the entire under parts are transversely barred with white and dark 

 ashy brown, the latter color predominating on the sides and flanks. 

 Throat and middle of the abdomen nearly pure white. 



This species can scarcely be distinguished from Ihtanus indveru- 

 lentus, Miiller, if it is not absolutely identical. The only appreciable 

 difference that we can perceive, is the slightly darker color of the pre- 

 sent bird, as pointed out by Lesson, as above, and by Pucheran, in 

 Guerin's Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 1851, p. 571, with reference 

 to this bird, and to the species immediately succeeding. 



From the succeeding bird, the present differs only in being some- 

 what larger. We are not without a suspicion that the conclusion of the 

 learned authors of the Fauna Japonica (in article on T. indverulentus, 

 Aves, p. 109), is correct. They regard this bird and the next as one 

 species. 



The specimens in the collection of the Expedition are from the 

 Feejee, Tahiti, and the Samoan Group. Recently, this bird lias been 

 found inhabiting Northwestern America, having been sent to the Na- 

 tional Museum in the very interesting collection made by Dr. J. G. 

 Cooper, who was attached as naturalist and surgeon to the party com- 

 manded by Gov. I. I. Stevens, which surveyed the most northern 

 proposed route for a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Cooper's spe- 

 cimens were obtained in Washington Territory. 



2. ToTANUS BREViPES, VieiUot. 



Totanus Irevi'pes, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI, p. 410 (1816); Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. 

 Zool. 1850, p. 370. 



Totanus pedestris, Less. Traite, I, p. 52 (1831). 



Totanus griscopygtus, GouLD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1848, p. 39 ? 



Scolopax padjica, FoRSTER, Desc. An. p. 174 (1844). 



Gould, B. of Aust. V, Plate XXXVIII ? 



The specimens that we regard as this species, are from the Paumotu 

 Group, and are in the plain unspotted plumage, very similar to that 

 of the preceding species. We cannot distinguish them from speci- 



