BIRDS —SCOLOPACIDAE—RHYACOPHILUS SOLITARIUS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wing. 
Wing. 
1490 
Carlisle, Pa_... 
May 8. 1844 
S. F. Baird. 
10. 80 
19. 75 
6. 32 
1489 
' O 
___do__ _ 
„ „ . „ _ _do_ 
..._do_ 
10. 56 
19. 75 
6. 40 
717 
-_« _do_ _ 
Sept. 9, 1842 
10. 50 
19. 50 
5. 50 
Union county r , Ill.. 
Northwestern University 
R. Kennicott_ 
5761 
Platte river_, _ 
Lt. Bryan_ 
W. S. Wood. 
4861 
Council Bluffs ..._ 
Lt. Warren_ 
Br. Hayden._ 
5098 
.... 
Indianola, Texas_ 
Capt. Pope_ 
4179 
Fort Brown, Texas. 
Lt. Couch_ 
RHYACOPHILUS, Kaup. 
Rhyacophilus , Kaup, Sk. Entw. Europ. Tk. 1829. Type Tringa glareola, L. (Gray.) 
Ch. —Bill slender, but widening a little towards the end ; lateral grooves of both mandibles extending to the middle of bill; 
nostril short; feathers on side of bill extending to about the same point and as far as beginning of nostrils; those of chin as far 
as their end ; both mandibles curved upwards slightly from middle ; legs short; bill about the length of tarsus, which is equal 
to middle toe ; bare portion of tibia about two-thirds the toes. Tail about opposite the middle of toes when outstretched. 
RHYACOPHILUS SOLITARIUS, (Wils.) Bon. 
Solitary Sandpiper. , 
Tringa ochropus, var. A. Latham, Ind. Orn. 1790. 
Tringa solitaria, Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 53 ; pi. Iviii. 
Totanus solitarius, Aud. Syn. 1839, 242.— Ib. Birds Am. V, 1842, 309 ; pi. 343. 
Totanus chloropygius, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816,401.—Bos'. Obs. 1825, Kb. 210.—Sw. F. B. Am. 11,1831, 393.— 
Wagler, Isis, 1831,521.— Nuttall, II, 159.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835,576 : V, 583; pi. 289.— 
Gosse, Birds Jam. 1847, 351. 
Rhyncophilus chloropygius, Bon. Comptes Rendus, Sept. 1856. 
Totanus glareola, Ord, ed. Wils. VII, 1825, 57. 
Totanus macroptera, Spix, Av. Bras. II, 1825, 76; pi. xcii. 
Sp. Ch.— Bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender, compressed ; both mandibles with narrow grooves; wing long, 
pointed; tail medium or rather short, rounded; legs rather long, slender; lower half of the tibia naked; toes long, the outer united 
to the middle by a small membrane, flattened underneath, marginated. Upper parts greenish brown, with numerous small 
circular and irregular spots of ashy white ; upper tail coverts darker. Under parts white ; breast and neck before with numerous 
longitudinal lines of greenish brown ; sides, axillaries, and under wing coverts white, with numerous transverse narrow bands of 
dark greenish brown ; under tail coverts white, with a few transverse bands of dark brown. Quills brownish black, with a slight 
bronzed or reddish lustre on the primaries ; two middle feathers of the tail greenish brown ; other feathers of the tail pure 
white, with about five transverse bands of brownish black. Bill and legs dark greenish brown. 
Total length, about 8 to 8.J inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 2t ; bill, 1|; tarsus, 1^ inches. 
Hab .—Entire temperate regions of North America; Mexico. 
Like tlie preceding, this hire! is extensively diffused, specimens in the collections of the 
expeditions being from widely distant localities. 
