42. MESOSCOLOPAX. 371 



b'. Ad. st. Paraguay. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



c'. Ad. sk. Paraguay, Oct. 9. Alan Peel, Esq. [P. J. 



d', e'. Ad. sk. Chupat, Patagonia, Oct., H. Purnford, Esq. 



Nov. [P.]. 



42. MESOSCOLOPAX. 



Numenius, pt., auct. recent. 



Range. From Eastern Siberia and Japan south through China to 

 the Moluccas and Australia. 



1. Mesoscolopax minutus. 



Numenius minutus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 176 (New South Wales) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 5G9 (1847); Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 49 

 (1848) ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. xcvii. figs. 2820-21 (1850) ; Temm. 

 8f Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. Ill, pi. 67 (18-50) ; Macg. Narr. Voy. 

 Rattlesn. ii. p. 358 (1852) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 597 (1856) ; Gray, 

 P. Z. S. 1858, p. 197 ; id. Cat. Mamm. $■ B. New Gum. p. 53 

 (1859); Sioinh. P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 317 (Amoy) ; Schl. Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Scolopaces, p. 101 (1864 : Japan; Amboyna); Gould, Handb. 

 B. Austr. ii. p. 280 (1865); Schl. Nederl.' Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. 

 p. 34S (1866) ; Taos. J. f. O. 1871, p. 60; Swink. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 409 (Amoy) ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 96 (1872: Celebes) ; 

 Swinh. Ibis, 1873, p. 426 (Chefoo) ; Tacz.J.f. O. 1873, p. 103 

 (E. Siberia), 1874, p. 336 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 334 (1874) ; Swinh. 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 132 (Chefoo) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 254 

 (1876 : Kultuk ; Dauria) ; David $ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 458 

 (1877 : Mongolia iu summer ; Shanghai, April & May) ; Masters, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. i. p. 61 (1877 : Cape York) ; Casteln. \ 

 Ramsay, t. c. p. 385 (Gulf of Carpentaria) ; Salvad. Orn. Papu- 

 asia, etc. iii. p. 334 (1882); Boyd. Consj). Av. Imp. Ross. p. 84 

 (1884 : Basin of the Lena ; Lake Baikal ; Dauria) ; Meyer, 

 Zeitschr. Ges. Orn. i. p. 295 (1884 : Aru Isl.) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, 

 p. 34 (Japan), p. 268 (Kiukiang) ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 363 (Yoko- 

 hama) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 335 (1888) ; id. B. Jap. 

 Emp. p. 317 (1890); Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, etc. iii. p. 205 

 (1891) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 331 (Lower Yangtse, migrant), p. 508 

 (Shanghai, April ; Kiukiang, Sept.) ; De La Touche, Lbis, 1892, 

 p. 501 (Fuochow, April) ; Tacz. Mdm. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. (7) 

 xxxix. p. 947 (1893). 



Numenius minor {nee Leach), S. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volk. p. 110 

 (1839-44); Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 569 (1847); id. P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 346 (Batchian ; Amboyna) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 411 (Amoy) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1863, p. 409 (Formosa); Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 137; 

 Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 182(1865); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 43 

 no. 10255 (1871) ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 245 (1873); Ramsay, 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 339 (Lower Darling K.) ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. W. ii. p. 198 (1878) ; Masters, t. c. p. 275 (Port Darwin) ; 

 Blakist. 8r Pn/er, Ibis, 1878, p. 222 (Japan) ; Rosenb. Malay. 

 Archip. p. 396 (1878); Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 911 (1880) ; Ram- 

 say, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 (1888: Port Darwin; Port Essing- 

 ton; Gulf of Carpentaria; llichmond & Clarence R. ; N. S. W. ; 

 Victoria & S. Australia; W. & S.W. Australia). 



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