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 Genus HETEROPYGIA fones. 



Ifeleropyz/iii, Coues in Vioc. Philatl. Acad. 1861, p. 161. 



If the genus lleteropygia is separable from Tringa, which seems very doubtful, 

 its distribntion would be Siberia and North America ; iu winter south to Chili and 

 Australia, 



1. Heteropygia bairdi (Coues). 



ArliHlrnmas Iminlii, Coues in I'ntc. riiilml. Acml. 1861, p. 194. 

 lItltroj>i/gia baiiili, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. .Uiis, XXIV. p. 570. 



One m"lc, 15;xrrington Island, October 0th, 1807. 

 Genus TRINGA L. 



Trlm/a, Linnaeus, Si/xt. Xal. ed. 10, I. p. 148 (1758). 



Cosmopolitan during migration. 



1. Tringa minutilla Vieill. 



Trhiga mimitilla, Vieillot in Nmi: Dirt. XXXIX. p. 452 (1819) ; Ridgway in Prnc. U.S. Nat. .1A«.«. 

 XIX. p. 631. 



Indefatigable (Habel), Charles Island (Beck), Barrington Island (Beck). 

 Genus HETEHACTlTlfcl Stejn. 



Helemct'dis, Stejuegei- in Aul: I. p. 236 (1884). 



1. Heteractitis incanus ((im.). 



Scolojiax inniiiu, Gmelin, Si/st. Nat. I. p. 658 (1788). 



Heteractitii inrunun, Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XIX. p. 032. 



"W'e have it from Ciiljjepper, Chatham, Charles, Abingdon, Albemarle and 

 Indefatigable Islands. Towusend obtained it also on .lames and Hood Islands. 



Genus HELODROMAS Kanj.. 



Helodroman, Kaup, Nctnr!. Sijsl. p. 144 (1829). 



Nearly cosmoiiolitan during migration. 



Not being at leisure at present to discuss the somewliat dillicuU iiuostion of the 

 genera of tlie Tntaniiiae, we accept the genus lli'lodromas of the Ciitaloyuc of Birds, 

 but we are afraid it will liave to be joined to Rh/acophilus, if not to Totanus. 



1. Helodromas solitarius (Wils.). 



Tringa mlitavia, Wilson, Anur. Urn. VII. p. 53. PI. LVIII. f. 3 (1813). 

 llrloilriiiiKiK solitarius, Sharpe, Cat. li. Brit. .Vux. XXIV. p. 444. 



Two sjjecimens were procured on C'hatham Island on October I'ith. The species 

 has not yet been recorded from the Galapagos Islands. 



