AVIFAUNA OF LAYS AN. 



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8. TOT ANUS INCANUS (Gm.). 



WANDERING TATTLEE. (Ulili, Sandwich Islands.) 



Ash-colour ad Sn/pc, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. 1, p. 154 (1785) (Eimeo and Palmerston Islands). 

 Scolopax incana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788) (ex Latham). 



Totanus incanus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. vi. p. 400 (1816) ; Secb. Gcogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 360 (1887) j Wilson, 



Aves Hawaii, pt. iii. text & pi. (1892J. 

 Heteroscelus brevipes, Baird, Expl. & Surv. R. R. Route Pacific, ix. pt. ii. pp. 728 & 734 (1858) j id. B. 



N. Amer. pi. 88 (1860). 



Actitis incanus, Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 303 (1869) ; id. Hawaiian Almanac, 1879, p. 52 

 (Sandwich Is.) . 



Heteractitis incanus, Stejn. Auk, 1884, p. 236 ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 132 (1885) ; id. Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 83 (Hawaiian Is.) ; Ridgw. Man. N.-Amer. B. p. 168 (1887). (Ridgway and 

 Stejneger very clearly give the distinctive characters of T. incanus (Gm.) and its near ally Totanus 

 brevipes, Vieill.) 



A few were met with by my collector on Laysan, Lisiansky, Midway, French Frigate, and 

 other small islands. The species has long been known to occur on the Sandwich Islands. 



