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Show / 244 DR. J. E. G R A Y O N MULETIA SEPTEMCINCTA. [Apr. 21, and toes in T.maritima, as also the base of the mandibles, being yellowish clay colour, while the same parts in T. gracilis, as in T. alpina, are black. The discovery of this new species of Sandpiper will be as gratifying to ornithologists as it was unexpected, and I feel much indebted to Professor Baird for having afforded me an opportunity of bringing it to their notice. Although it has only been met with hitherto upon St. Paul's Island, Alaska, there is no reason to suppose that it has a very restricted range. On the contrary, being capable, like all its congeners, of powerful flight, I should at least expect to hear of it on the mainland on both sides of Behring Sea, and probably as far northward as the Arctic Circle. Moreover, it is not unlikely that on the west coast of North America it may have been mistaken for Tringa alpina, var. ameri-cana, Cassiu. It should be observed that in comparing the dimensions of the species above named, I have preferred to take an average specimen of T. alpina without reference to locality (it happens to have been obtained in England), rather than select, as I might have done, an American example, which would only differ in having the bill equal to, or slightly longer than, that of T. gracilis; for this long-billed variety, as I have before pointed out (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 115), is not confined to the American continent. PS. (June 20, 1874).-Since the foregoing remarks were written, I have been in correspondence with Dr. Elliott Coues on the subject of a Tringa recently described by him as Tringa ptilocnemis in an " Appendix" to Mr. H. W . Elliott's ' Report on the Prybilov Islands.' This " Appendix" I have not yet seen, although Dr. Coues has most kindly forwarded proof-sheets of the body of the work ; but I have no doubt, from his letters to me on the subject, that his bird is the species now under notice. Dr. Coues informs me that the work referred to, although dated 1873, was not actually published until either January or February of the present year.-J. E. H. 7. O n the Short-tailed Armadillo (Muletia septemcincta). By Dr. J. E. GRAY, F.R.S. &c. [Eeceived March 12, 1874.] (Plate XLI.) The British Museum has received a skeleton, frontal and dorsal disk, and tail of the Short-tailed Armadillo, made from an adult specimen, which I believe was alive in the Society's Gardens*. * The specimen from which the skeleton was prepared was presented to the Society by Mrs. Mackinlay, July 18th, 1873, along with another of the same species. Other examples had previously been received from the same donor. See Tatusia hybrida, Kevised List of Vert. p. 110.-P. L. S. |