Ordee LIMICOL^.] 
[Pam. SCOLOPACID^. 
TOTANUS INCANUS. 
(GREY SANDPIPER.) 
Ash-coloured Snipe, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 154 (1785). 
Scolopax incanus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788). 
Totanus incanus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, d’llist. Nat. tom. iv. p. 400 (1816). 
Totanus Irevipes (summer plumage), id. ibid. p. 410. 
Scolopax solitarius, Bloxh. Byr. Voy. p. 252 (1826). 
Trynga glareola, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. vol. ii. p. 194 (1831). 
Totanus pedestris. Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 552 (1831). 
Totanus fuliginosus, Gould, Voy. Beagle, ‘ Birds,’ p. 130 (1841). 
Totanus pulmrulentus, S. Miill. Verhandel. Land- en Volkenk. p. 152 (1842). 
Scolopax undulata, Forst. Descr. An. p. 173 (1844). 
Scolopax pacifica (winter plumage), id. ibid. p. 174. 
Totanus oeeanicus, Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois, p. 244 (1847). 
Totanus griseopygius, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 39, and Birds of Austr. vol. vi. pi 38 (1848) 
Totanus poly nesice, Peale, Un. St. Expl. Exp. p. 237, pi. 65. fig. 1 (1848). 
Actitis Irevipes, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 267 (1849). 
Ileteroscelus hrevipes, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 734 (1858). 
Garnhetta pulverulentus, Gould, Handb. Birds of Austr. ii. p. 268 (1865). 
Ad. [exempl. ex N. Z.) suprii schistaceus, alis dorso concoloribus majoribus anguste albo terminatis : ala spuria, 
tectricibus primariorum et primariis nigricantibus : caud4 dorso concolore : pileo scbistaceo : loris fusces- 
centi-scbistaceis, fasciH supr^ lorali albida : facie lateral! albid^, anguste fusco striolatS, : gul4 alba : corpore 
reliquo subtiis albido, gutture et prsepectore fuscescentibus ; pectore et abdominis lateralibus fusco fasciatis, 
hypoebondriis et axillaribus et subalaribus sehistaceis, his extus albido fasciatis : subcaudalibus albis, extimis 
fusco fasciatis ; remigibus subtus sehistaceis, intus pallidioribus. 
Male {N.-Z. example). Upper surface dark slaty grey, tinged with brown on the wing-coverts and scapulars j 
sides of the head also dark slaty grey, with a broad stripe of white extending from the base of the upper 
mandible to the anterior edge of the eyes, and the cheeks more or less varied with white ; chin and upper 
part of throat pure white ; fore neck, breast, abdomen, and vent pale cinereous and white intermixed, changing 
to pure white on the flanks and crissum, the feathers of the breast and flanks, as well as the long under tail- 
coverts, grossed by broad wavy lines of slaty greyj under surface of wings, axillary plumes, and sides of the 
y ai slaty grey, varied with white near the outer edges of the wing ; primaries brownish black with 
paler shafts; secondaries and the whole of the tail-feathers dark slaty brown. Bill browmish black • le-s 
and feet dark olive; claws black. Total length 12-25 inches; wing from flexure 7-25 ; tail 3; bill alone 
the ridge 1-6, along the edge of lower mandible I'S ; bare tibia -5 ; tarsus US ; middle toe and claw Vs. 
Female {N.-Z. example). Differs from the male in having a stronger tinge of brown on the upper surface • the 
white frontal streak is narrower; the fore neck is uniform pale slaty grey; the underparts are lighter' and 
there is an almost entire absence of the dark wavy markings on the plumage of the breast and sides of the 
body, a few feathers, however, on each side of the abdomen and the long under tail-coverts being traversed 
by arrow-head markings of dull slaty grey. ° 
