50. TR1NG01DES. 461 



distr.) : Beid, f. c. p. 258 (Marocco) ; Nehrk. J.f. O. 1885, p. 35 

 (Waigiou) ; Zarudnoi, Ois. Transcasp. p. 70 (1885) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1886, p. L67 (Muscat), Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 392 (1886): Salwd. 

 Elenco Ucc. Ital. p. 223 (1886) ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl 

 hid. xlvi. p. 22 (1886 : Borneo) ; £cw%, J. A & i?«^. lvi. p. 87 

 (1887); Macgregor, Str. F. x. p. 466 (1887: Mysore); Lister, 

 P. Z. S. 18*8, p. 528 (Christmas Isl.) ; Beid, Ibis, 1888, p. 78 

 (Tenerife); Sharpe, t. c. p. 203 (Palawan): Hume, Str. F. xi. 

 p. 324 (1888: Manipur) ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 

 xlix. p. 416 (1889: Sumatra); St. John, ibis, 1889, p. 177 

 (Afghanistan) ; Eagle Clarke, t. c. p. 552 (E. Pyrenees, May) ; 

 Everett, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. 1889, p. 208; Gates, ed. 

 Hume's Nests $ Eggs Ind. li. iii. p. 352 (1890) ; Be Vis, Ann. 

 Hep. Brit. New Guinea, p. 62 (1890) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. 1st Resoc. 

 p. 595 (1889), 2nd R.isoc. p. 662 (1890), 3rd Resoc. p. 517 (1891) ; 

 Bnisina, Motr. etc. (Om. Croat.) p. 90 (1890); Shelleg, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 170 (Yambuya) ; Sharpe, t. c. pp. 144, 284 (N. Borneo) ; 

 Be Vis, Ibis, 1891, p. 41; Styan, t. c. pp. 331, 506 (Lower 

 Yangtze); Frivuldsky, Av. Himg. p. 142 (1891); Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Genov. (2) x. p. 827 (1891 : Killerton Isl.) ; id. Agg. Om. 

 Papuasia etc. iii. p. 201 (1891) ; Madardsz, Erliiut. Ausst. Ungar. 

 Voii. p. 109(1891); Sharpe, Rep. 2nd York. Miss., Aves, p. 141 

 (1891) ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 13 ; Barnes, Ibis, 



1893, p. 71 (Aden); Styan, t. c. p. 437 (Hainan); Shelley, Ibis, 



1894, pp. 27, 476 (Nvasaland) ; Munn, t. c. p. 73 (Calcutta 

 distr.) ; Pearson ,V Bidwell, Ibis, 1894, p. 235 (X. Norway) ; 

 Cordeau.r, t. c. p. 374 (Cashmere). 



Actitis cinclus, Brehm, Vog. Beutschl. p. 648 (1831). 



Actitis stagnalis (nee Gray), Brehm, t. c. p. 649. 



Guinetta hypohuea, Gray, list Gen. B. p. 68 (1840). 



Totanus macularius ? vel auratus, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., 



Grail, pi. 83. fig. 1, no. 368 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 



(1844). 

 Actitis empusa, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 222 (Port Essington) ; id. 



B. Austr. vi. p. 35 (1848) ; Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 195, no. 526 



(1850); id. Grail, tab. ccexxxvi. figs. 2655-56 (1850); Macgill. 



Nan: Voy. ' Rattlesnake,' ii. p. 358 (1852) ; Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philad. 1862, p. 322 (Bonin Isl.) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. i. p. 375 (1877 : Duke of York Isl.), p. 394 (Port Moresby) ; 



id. op. cit. (2) ii. p. 171 (1888: Derby, N.W. Australia). 

 Actitis meffarhvncb.ua, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 314 (1855). 

 Actitis scblegeli, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 597 (1850). 

 Tringoides empusa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 197 (New Guinea ; N. 



Australia) ; Scl. Journ. Limi. Soc, Zool. ii. p. 170 (1858) ; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1861, p. 438 (Aru Isl. ; New Guinea). 

 Totanus empusa, Gray, Cat. Mamm. §• B. New Guinea, p. 52 (1859), 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour bronzy brown, 

 the feathers with arrow-shaped central markings of black, which 

 take the form of bars on the scapulars and inner secondaries, which 

 are like the back : wing-coverts bronzy brown like the back, but 

 regularly barred across with blackish, the median and greater 

 coverts with ashy fringes, the latter rather broadly tipped with 

 white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown with an 

 olive gloss, the secondaries tipped with white and having a broad 

 white base; inner secondaries like the back; lower back, rump. 



