_Totanus melanoleucus?_
_Scolopax vocifera_, +Wils.+—Aud. pl. 308.
_Totanus melanoleucus_, +Vieill.+
[109] Length 13³⁄₄ inches, expanse 24, flexure 7¹⁄₂, tail 3, rictus
2²⁄₁₀, tarsus 2⁸⁄₁₀, middle toe 1⁶⁄₁₀, hind toe ⁸⁄₁₀.
I know this species only by an individual brought to me at Spanish
Town on the 21st of March. In the succeeding month, however, Mr. Hill
informed me, that both this and the preceding species were particularly
abundant; the numbers of these birds procured by the market sportsmen
of Spanish-town and Kingston, being quite extraordinary.
The specimen I obtained does not exactly agree with the descriptions
I have read, the breast and sides being marked with zigzags of black,
which are large and conspicuous on the flanks. The gizzard, which was
muscular, contained a greenish unctuous mass, which showed traces of
scales, or else the plated covering of _crustacea_.