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crimson ; legs and feet (in life) purplish red. Wing, 9.80-10.25 ; culmen, 2.85-3.50 ; 
tarsus, 2.00-2.20 ; middle toe, 1.20-1.40. Hob. Palsearctic region, New Zealand, etc. 
2. H. palliatus. Rump brownish slate, like back and wings ; iris bright yellow ; legs and 
feet dull fleshy white or pale dull flesh-color. Young : Top and sides of head speckled 
with pale brown; feathers of upper parts broadly margined with dull buff; bill brownish ; 
iris brown. Downy young : Above, light brownish gray, faintly mottled with dusky, and 
marked with two irregular black stripes down the back and one along each side ; a 
post-ocular black streak ; lower parts, except foreneck, white. Wing, 9.75-11.00 ; cul- 
men, 3.00-3.70 ; tarsus, 2.05-2.55 ; middle toe, 1,20-1.55. Hub. Coasts of America in 
general, except Pacific coast north of Lower California. 
B. Plumage entifely blackish. 
3. H. niger. Entire plumage brownish black, more plumbeous on the head and neck. 
a. Wing, 9.60-10.75; culmen, 2.50-2.95; greatest depth of bill, forward of nostril, .45-. 52; 
tarsus, 1.85-2.25; middle toe, 1.30-1.65. Hub. Pacific coast of North America. Var. 
niger. 
b. Wing, 10.25-10.80; culmen, 2.90—3.00; tarsus, 2.20; middle toe, 1.70-1.75; greatest 
depth of bill anterior to nostril, .60. Hab. Pacific coast of South America. Var. ater. 1 
In this species, or race, according to authors, the iris is yellow, eyelids red or orange-red, bill 
orange-red, and feet flesh-color, or grayish. 
II. palliatus. 
The Hcematopus leucopus (Garnot), recognized by Sclater and Salvin (Nomenclator Neotropi- 
calium, p. 143), is a South American species, with which we are unacquainted. Its habitat is 
Tierra del Fuego. In the adult of this species the bill is red or orange-red, the iris bright yellow 
or orange, the eyelids yellow or red, the legs and feet flesh-colored or grayish. In the young, the 
bill is brownish, the iris brown, the legs and feet grayish. (Cf. Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, 437, 
438 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, 15.) 
1 HajMATOPUS NIGER ATER. 
Hcematopus ater, Vieill. Gal. Ois. II. 1825, 88, pi. eexx. — Cassin, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 
700. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 514. — Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1878,438. — Sharpe, 
P. Z. S. 1881, 15. 
Hcematopus niger, C'uv. Rfeg. An. I. 1829, 504 (not of Pallas, 1831). 
Hcematopus Townsmdii, Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 247, pi. 427 ; Synop. 1839, 229 ; B. Am. V. 
1842, 245, pi. 326. 
