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field, Mass.). — Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Xat. Cuba, i, 1866, 355. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 754 (Xeberos, e. Peru), 979 (Pebas, 

 e. Peru); 1873, 309 (upper Rio Ucayali, Xeberos, Chamicuros, and Pebas, 

 e. Peru). — Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xx, 1868, 150 (Laredo, 

 Texas).— Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 138.— Dalgleish, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, v, 1880, 149 (European records; British Islands, 17; Helgoland, 1; 

 France, 1, doubtful). — Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, iii, 1886, 370. — 

 Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 497 (Barbados). 



[Tiingites] rufescens Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 27 (Cuba). 



Tringoides rufescens Gray, List Brit. Birds, 1863, 161. — Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 



1870, 310 (Ypanema; Mattogrosso, Oct.; Maribitanas, March). 

 [Tringoides] rufescens Pelzelx, Orn. Bras., 1870, 457. — Gray, Hand-list, iii, 



1871, 46, no. 10283. 



[Limicold] hrevirostris Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (Brazil). 

 Actidurus nsevius Heermanx, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., \ii, 1854, 178 (near 



San Antonio, Texas): Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. \'i, 1859, 20, pi. 6 (near 



San Antonio, Texas; habits; descr. nest). 



Genus CANUTUS Brehm. 



Canutus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 653. (Type, by tautonymy, Tringa 



canutus Linnaeus.) 

 Anteliotringaa Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 274. (Type, 



by original designation, Totamis temdrostris Horsfield.) 



Large Eroliinae (wing 152—180 mm.) with the straight and rather 

 stout bill longer than tarsus, and tail with middle rectrices not 

 projecting. 



Bill longer than head (longer than tarsus, more than one-fifth as 

 long as wing), stout basally (its depth at base equal to about one- 

 fourth the length of exposed culmen), tapering rapidly terminally 

 in lateral profile, but in vertical profile appreciably contracted in 

 width m middle portion and slightly expanded terminally; nasal 

 groove broad basally, gradually but rather rapidly contracted 

 anteriorly, extending nearly to tip of maxilla; mandible also with a 

 distinct, but much naiTOwer, lateral groove; nostril sub-basal, longi- 

 tudinally linear, in lower part- of nasal fossa; loral antia nearly 

 truncate, gradually receding above to the frontal line, which forms 

 a distinct concavity at base of culmen; malar antia forming a short 

 obtuse angle (in C. canutus) or a more elongated acute angle (in 

 C. tcnnirostris) decidedly anterior to the loral antia; mental antia 

 anterior to malar antia, but occupying only extreme posterior portion 

 of the interramal space, which is mostly occupied by naked mem- 

 brane. Wing long and pointed, the longest primary (outermost) 

 exceeding distal secondaries by more than half the length of wing; 

 longest tertials (more or less cuncate) falUng short of longest primary 

 by about length of middle toe with claw (in C. canutus) to nearly 

 twice as much (in O. tenuirostris) . Tail less than two-fifths as long 



a"AvrT]\Los, eastorn+ Tringa {Tpvy=yas, a kind of bird). (Mathews.) 



