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CHARADRIIDA 



Deutschl. p. 48 (1889) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 177 (S. Afghanistan); 

 Lilford, t. c. p. 340 (Cyprus) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 571 

 (1889); Brusina, Motr. (Orn. Croatica) etc. p. 88 (1890); Buck- 

 ley dy I£arvie-Brown, Vertebr. Faun. Orkney Isl. p. 216 (1891); 

 Hartei-t, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb. Mus. p. 221 (1891 : Pillan, 

 E. Prussia); Madardsz, Erlaut. Ausst. Ungar. Vogelf. p. 110 

 (1891 : Veleneze Lake) ; Giitke, Vogelw. Helyol. p. 521 (1891) ; 

 Frivaldsky, Av. Hung. p. 146 (1891) ; Sharpe, Sci. Res. 2nd Yark. 

 Miss., Aves, p. 143 (1891 : Yarkand, Nov.) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. 

 Brit. B. pt. xix. (1891); Seebohm, Ibis, 1892, p. 25 (Heligoland) ; 

 Hartert, t. c. p. 515 (East Prussia) ; Koenig, J.f. O. 1892, p. 91 

 (Tunis) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, pp. 171, 181 (Aden) ; Meade- Waldo, 

 t. c. p. 205 (Canary Isl.) ; Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, p. 168 (1894) ; 

 Reichen. Vbg. deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 41 (1894: Tanganyika, winter) ; 

 Pearson fy Bidwell, Ibis, 1894, p. 235 (N. Norway) ; Shelley, t. c. 

 p. 475 (Nvasaland) ; Coues, Auk, xii. p. 339 (1895) ; A. Newton, 

 Nature, vol. 52, p. 438 (1895) ; Eagle-Clarke, Ibis, 1895, p. 207. 



Tringa temmincki {nee Leisl.), Koch, Syst. Baier. Zool. i. p. 292 

 (1816) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 59 (teste O. F). 



Pelidna minuta, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 105 (1824) ; 

 Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 979. 



Calidris minuta, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 526 (1829). 



Actodromas minuta, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 55 (1829) ; Bp. C. R. 

 xliii. p. 596 (1856) ; Gigl. Ibis, 1865, p. 61 (Pisa) ; Loche, Expl. 

 Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 313 (1867) ; Salvad. Faun. Ital., Ucc. p. 317 

 (1871); Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 388 (S. Spain); Gould, B. Gt. 

 Brit. iv. pi. 72 (1873) ; Salvad. Elenc. Ucc. Ital. p. 220 (1886) ; 

 Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 387 (1886) ; id. op. cit. 1st Resoc. i. p. 589 (1889), 

 ii. p. 643 (1890), iii. p. 507 (1891); Koenig, J. f.O. 1890, p. 314 

 (Tenerife) ; Heine fy Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 329 (1890) ; 

 Koenig, J.f. O. 1890, p. 456 (Madeira) ; Fatio fy Studer, Cat. 

 distr. Ois. Stiisse, p. 50 (1890). 



Pelidna minuta, Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl. p. 665 (1831) ; Bp. Comp. 

 List B. Eur. $ N. Amer. p. 50 (1838) ; Strickl. # Sci. Contr. Orn. 

 1852, p. 159 (Damara-land) ; Filippi, Tiagg. Pars. p. 351 (1865) ; 

 Deal. # Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 203 (1867) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. 

 p. 190 (1869) ; Fritsch, Vbg. Eur. tab. 39. figs. 1, 9 (1870). 



Pelidna pusilla (nee L.), Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl. p. 666 (1831). 



The Little Stint, Yarrell, Brit. B. ii. p. 643 (1843). 



Schceniclus minuta, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 106 (1844) ; id. 

 Cat. Mamm. fyc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 140 (1846). 



Tringa damacensis (?iec Horsf.), Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. 

 p. 253 (1876: Kultuk, Darasun). 



Tringa minuta orientalis, Tacz. Mem, Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. 

 (7) xxxix. p. 918 (1893). 



Adult in winter plumage. General colour above ashy brown, 

 slightly darker along the shafts ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts blackish brown ; sides of lower back and lateral upper 

 tail-coverts pure white ; tail-feathers light smoky brown, the long 

 central ones dark brown, with a very narrow whitish fringe ; wing- 

 coverts rather darker brown than the back, with ashy fringes to 

 the median series, the greater coverts tipped with white, forming a 

 wing-band ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish brown, 

 edged with white at the tips : quills dark brown, with white shafts, 

 a few of the inner primaries also edged with white near the 



