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AECHMORHYNCHUS COUES. 



THIS genus appears to be closely allied to Prosobonia, but has a much 

 shorter hind toe. Its colouration is very different, and quite that of 

 a Sandpiper, while the pattern of Prosobonia is most singular. Seebohm 

 placed Aechmorhynchus, together with Prosobonia, in the genus Phegornis. 

 We know only one species. 



AECHMORHYNCHUS CANCELLATA (G m.) 



(Plate 35.) 



Barred Phalarope Latham, Gen. Syn. III. pt. i, p. 274 (1785 — Christmas Island in the 

 Pacific Ocean). 



Tringa cancellata Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, p. 675 (1788 — ex Latham). 



Tringa parvirostris Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp., Birds p. 235, pi. LXVI, 2 (1848 — Paumotu) 

 Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 321, pi. 38, 2 (1858 — Paumotu). 



Totanus (Tryngites ?) cancellatus Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Islands Pac. Ocean, p. 51 (1859). 



Phegornis cancellatus Seebohm, Geogr. Distrib. Charadr. p. 451, pi. 17 (1888,). 



Aechmorhynchus cancellatus Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIV, p. 525 (1896). 



" ILL short, straight, and slender; wings long, first, second, and third 

 JLJ quills very nearly equal ; tertiaries but very little longer than the 

 secondaries ; tail rather long, wide, rounded ; legs and toes long, the 

 former robust ; tibia feathered for more than half its length. A distinct 

 stripe over and behind the eye ashy-white. Entire upper parts umber-brown, 

 unspotted on the top of the head, but on the other upper parts edged and 

 tipped with ashy-white and reddish fulvous. Tail-feathers umber-brown, with 

 irregular and imperfect transverse narrow bands of ashy and pale reddish- 

 white, and tipped with the same. Underparts white, with a tinge of 

 ashy ; throat and middle of the abdomen unspotted ; breast, sides, and 

 under coverts of the tail spotted, and with irregular transverse bars of 

 brown, the latter most apparent on the sides, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts. Under wing-coverts ashy- white, irregularly spotted with brown. 

 Bill greenish, darker at the tip; legs dark green. Sexes very nearly alike, 

 female slightly paler." (Cassin.) 



