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Show 1873.] ON AMERICAN LIMlCOLcE. 455 Except in its rather larger size and in the differences above described, this species is very like the preceding. 2. MACRORHAMPHUS. If the American writers are correct, as we believe they are, in distinguishing two species of this genus, it would appear that both occur in the Neotropical region. The Guatemalan specimens obtained by Mr. Salvin, and hitherto referred by him to M. griseus *, appear to belong to the longer-billed and longer-legged species, M. scolopaceus. Mr. Lawrence gives the same species as occurring in Costa Rica (Ann. L. N . Y. ix. p. 141). But further south only M. griseus seems to be met with. Mr. Lawrence gives this species in his Panama list (Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 479) ; and one of Natterer's Brazilian skins (collected at Praia de Cajutaba, near Para) seems certainly referable to the shorter-legged M. griseus, as Hr. v. Pelzeln has correctly determined it (Orn. Bras. p. 313). This specimen, we may add, is far advanced in breeding-plumage. Mr. Salvin's Guatemalan skins of M. scolopaceus were all obtained in winter, and are either in winter plumage or only just on the change. 3. TRINGA. Four of the species of Tringa recognized by the ornithologists of the United States extend far into the Neotropical region. In Salvin and Godman's collection are the following specimens of these species :- 1. TRINGA MACULATA, Vieill.; Cassin, in Baird's B. N. A. p. 720. Of this species we have before us skins from Guatemala (Salvin), Panama (M'Cleannan), Peru (Whitelg), South Brazil (Rogers), and Chili (Reed). 2. TRINGA BAIRDI, Coues. Of this bird, besides typical northern specimens, we have skins from Mexico, Ecuador (Fraser), Eastern Peru (Bartlett), Western Peru (Whitely), and Chili (Leybold). As stated (P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144), we have likewise examined skins of this species obtained by Mr. Hudson near Buenos Ayres; and we suppose it to be the Iringa dorsalis of Lichtenstein, first described by Burmeister (System. Ueb. iii. p. 374), and very possibly the Chorlito lomo negro of Azara, in which case Tringa melanotus of Vieillot is the first name for it. But both Azara's and Burmeister's measurements are too large for it. 3. TRINGA BONAPARTII. Of the Tringa bonapartii of Schlegel we have before us skins from Panama (M'Cleannan), Ypanema, South Brazil (Natterer), * Ibis, 1860, p. 277, et 18G5, p. 191. |