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Actiiis glareola Blyth, Cat. Birds Mu3. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1849, 207 (Calcutta). — 

 Irby, Ibis, 1861, 240 (Kumaon).— Jerdon, Birds India, iii, 1864, 697.— 

 Godwin-Austen, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxxix, 1870, 273 (Khasia 

 Hills). — Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xl, 276 (Wardha Valley). — 

 Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., viii, 1872, 96 (Gorontalo); Ibis, 1873, 317 

 (Andaman Islands). — ^Holdsworth, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 474 

 (Ceylon). — Ball, Stray Feath., i, 1873, 85 (Andaman Islands, May); vii, 

 1878, 228 (Ganges to Godaveri). — Blyth and Walden, Birds Burma, 1875, 

 155. — Butler, Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 17 (Guzerat). — Fairbanks, Stray 

 Feath., iv, 1876, 263 (Ahmednuggur). — Armstrong, Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 

 344 (Elephant Point).— Butler, Stray Feath.. v. 1877, 233 (Deesa, Aug. to 

 May). — Davidson and Wenden, Stray Feath., vii, 1878, 89 (Deccan). — 

 Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 143 (Menado, March; Limbotto, July). — Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1884, 423 (Chamba).— Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, 1884, 253.— 

 McGregor, Stray Feath., x, 1887, 466 (Mysore). 



[Rhynchophilus] glareola Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597.^Loche, 

 Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois., ii, 1867, 325. 



Tringa grallatorisa Montagu, Orn. Diet., Suppl., 1813, App., p. 8 (coast of 

 s. Devon, August). 



Totanus grallatoris Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, 1824, 148. 



Trynga littorea (not Tringa littorea Linnaeus) Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826. 

 195. 



Totanus affinis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii, 1821, 191 (Java; type now 

 in coll. Brit. Mus.) — Gray and Hardwicke, Illustr. Indian Zool., ii, 1832, 

 pi. 51, fig. 2.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 222 (s. e. Borneo).— 

 Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 487 (Timor).— Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1863, 311; Ibis, 1866, 294 (Formosa). 



[Rhynchophilus] affinis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 



Rhyacophilus glareola affinis Ma.thews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 

 230. 



Totanus sylvestris Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 638 (Germany). 



Totanus palustris Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 639 (Germany). 



Totanus kuhlii Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 641 (Java); Vogelf., 1855, .312, 

 footnote. 



T[otanus] glareoides Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 86 (Nepal; nomen 

 nudum) . 



T[otanus} glareoloides Jerdon, Birds India, iii, 1864, 697 (in synonymy). 



Genus TRINGA Linnasus. 



Tringa Linn/Eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 148. (Type, by tautonymy, Tring 



ocrophus Linnaeus.) 

 Helodromas Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 144. (Type, by 



monotypy, Tringa ocrophus Linnseus.) 



Small Tringinae (wing 121-145 mm.) closely resembling BJiya- 

 cophihis but with tarsus much less than one and a haK (only about 

 one and one-sixth) times as long as middle toe with claw, bare 

 portion of tibia only about half as long as middle toe with claw, 

 exposed culmen as long as or longer than tarsus, and metasternum 

 2-notched (instead of 4-notched). 



Bill straight and slender, as long as or longer than tarsus, the nasal 

 groove extending halfway or more to tip of maxilla. Wing long and 



a Corrected to grallatoria in errata. 



