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?[Tnnga] australis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 679 (Cayenne; based on 

 Southern Sandpiper Latham, Synopsis Birds, i'i, pt. i, 187). ^Latham, Index 

 Orn., ii, 1790, 737.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 409. 



T[ringa] australis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 387, footnote (crit.). 



[Tringa] nievia Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 681 (France, n. Russia, and 

 Siberia; based on Calidris nsevia Brisson, Orn., v, 229, pi. 21. fig. 1).— La- 

 tham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 732. 



[Tringa] grisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 681 (based on Calidris grisea Bris- 

 son, Orn., V, 1760, 233, pi. 21, fig. 2; Grisled Sandpiper Latham, Synopsis 

 Birds, iii, pt. i, 175). — ^Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 733. 



Tiinga grisea Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 22 (PI. Enl., pi. 366). 



Tringa ferruginea (not of Briinnich, 1764) Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb. Deutsch. 

 Vogelk., 1810, 395.— NiLssoN, Orn. Suec, ii, 18 L7, 84.— Vieillot; Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 466.— Roux, Orn. Prov., 1830, pis. 282,283. 



Tringa rufa Wilson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 43, pi. 57, fig. 5 (Middle Atlantic States, 

 probably New Jersey). 



T[ringa\ rufa Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.. v, 1825, 93 (crit.); Obs. 

 Norn. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [175]. 



Canutus canutus rufus Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 273, in 

 text (America). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 200. 



{'f)[Tringa] lomatina Lichtenstein, Nora. Mus. Berol.,1854, 92 (Bengal: =nQmen 

 nudum). 



Canutus rufescens Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 292 (for Tringa canutus Linnaeus). 



Canutus canutus rodgersi Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 270, 

 273 (Japan); List of Birds of Australia, 1913, 71. 



Genus ARQUATELLA Baird. 



Arquatella Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 714, 717. (Type, by origi- 

 nal designation, Tringa maritima Briinnich.) 



Actiaa Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890,329. 

 (New name for Arquatella Baird, on grounds of purism.) 



Medium-sized to rather large Eroliinse (wing 108-135 mm.) with 

 tarsus shorter than middle toe with claw, the latter shorter than 

 exposed cuhnen; bare portion of tibia less than half as long as tarsus, 

 and with bill compressed, straight, or very slightly decurved distally. 



Bill much longer than tarsus (exposed culmen about equal to tar- 

 sus and first phalanx of middle toe) , compressed (nearly twice as deep 

 as broad basally), gradual!}' tapering terminally, straight or very 

 slightly decurved distally; Jiasal groove broad, narrowly cuneate to 

 beyond middle of maxilla, where rather abruptly contracted; mandi- 

 ble with a distinct though narrow lateral groove; nostril sub-basal, 

 narrowly elliptical, its upper edge slightly operculate; anterior edge 

 of loral feathering forming a nearly straight vertical line, the malar 

 antia slightly but decidedly more anterior, the mental antia nearly 

 on a vertical line with anterior end of nostrils. Wing rather long, 

 pointed, the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal seconda- 

 ries by slightly more than half the length of wing; longest tertials 

 falling far short of tip of longest primary. Tail more than two-tiftlis 



" 'uKTioi, of the sf^ashore. (Richmond.) 



