. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . s (Vieill.), Bridges, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. curvirostris, Lichtenstein, fide Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, iii. p. 378 (1886). Literature. Plates.—Lesson, 111. Zool. pi. 18. Habits. ) j Durnford, Ibis, 1876, p. 164. Eggs. Specificcharacters. Geographi-cal distribu-tion. The South-American Painted Snipe may always be recognized by its small size, thewing from the carpal joint only measuring about four instead of about five inches. In adultplumage the large round whi
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . s (Vieill.), Bridges, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. curvirostris, Lichtenstein, fide Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, iii. p. 378 (1886). Literature. Plates.—Lesson, 111. Zool. pi. 18. Habits. ) j Durnford, Ibis, 1876, p. 164. Eggs. Specificcharacters. Geographi-cal distribu-tion. The South-American Painted Snipe may always be recognized by its small size, thewing from the carpal joint only measuring about four instead of about five inches. In adultplumage the large round white spots on the black wing-coverts are very conspicuous. It inhabits the Chilian subregion of the Neotropical Region. To the Straits ofMagellan it is probably only a summer migrant, which occasionally wanders in winter asfar north as Peru and Brazil. Capt. Markharn obtained it at Coquimbo in Chili (aboutlat. 30° south), and it is recorded from Peru (Tschudi, Fauna Peruan. p. 300). I haveexamples collected by Capt. Harrison near Buenos Ayres, and it has been recorded fromthe province of San Paulo in CHAPTER XXX. Genus SCO LOP AX. digitis omnibus ad basin liberis: rostro longissimo (quam tarsus duplo longiore). Diagnosisof genus. The Snipes are very easily and very distinctly characterized from their allies. Most of theCharadriidse are partially web-footed; they have a distinct web at the base of the toes,sometimes much more developed between the outer and middle toe : but the Snipes, someof the Sandpipers, and the Turnstones are exceptions to this rule; they have no rudimentaryweb between any of the toes, which are all cleft to the base. Again, most of theCharadriidse have comparatively long legs and short bills; the Snipes, on the contrary,have short legs and long bills. The only birds in this family, except the Snipes, in whichthe bill is as long as, or longer than, twice the length of the tarsus are the females of one ortwo species of Curlew, and one
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