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3. Totanus melanoleucos. Licht. et Vieill. 
Scolopax melanoleuca, Gmel. 
Scolopax vociferus, Wils. Am. Orn. pi. 58, f. 5. 
Chorlito a croupion blanc, Azara, No. 394. 
Totanus solitarius, Vieill. 
White-rumped snipe, Lath. 
Maldonado, Rio Plata. 
4. Totanus fuliginosus. Gould. 
T. corpore supra caudaque fuliginoso-griseis ; alis fuscis ; gutture albo ; pectore 
hypochondr Usque plumbeo-griseis ; abdomine medio, caudce tegminibus inferioribus 
albis, illis obscure, his plane grisescenti fusco fasciatis ; rostri rubescenti fusco ; 
pedibus obscurb olivaceo fuscis. 
Long. tot. 9| unc. aloe, 6§ ; caudce, 3 ; tarsi, 1 \ ; rostri, §. 
The whole of the upper surface and tail sooty-grey ; wings dull brown ; throat 
white ; chest and flanks leaden grey ; centre of the abdomen and under 
tail coverts white, the former indistinctly, and the latter distinctly, barred 
with greyish brown ; bill, reddish-brown ; feet, dark olive-brown. 
Habitat, Galapagos Archipelago {October). 
This species appear quite distinct from any described one. 
Hjmantopus nigricollis. Vieill. 
Himantopus nigricollis, Vieill. Ency. Meth. 340. 
Recurvirostra himantopus, Wils. Am. Orn. pi. 58. f. 2. 
My specimens were obtained from the provinces bordering the Plata. On 
the great swampy plains and fens which lie between Buenos Ayres and Bahia 
Blanca, it is very numerous in small, and occasionally, in large flocks. This 
plover, which appears as if mounted on stilts, has been wrongfully accused of 
inelegance ; when wading about in shallow water, which is its favourite resort, its 
gait is far from awkward. In a flock it utters a noise, which singularly resem- 
bles the cry of a pack of small dogs in full chase : when I travelled across the 
above mentioned plains, I was more than once startled, when lying awake at 
night, at the distant sound, and thought the wild Indians were coming. 
Tringa rufescens. Vieill. 
Tringa rufescens, Vieill., N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. 34. p. 470. 
Ency. Meth. Orn. p. 1090. 
Gal. des Ois. pi. 238. 
Yarrel, Lin. Trans. 
Gould ; Birds of Europe, pi. 
Monte Video, Rio Plata. 
