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Tringa pectoralis (nee Say), Sioinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 97 (Northern 



China). 

 Lirnnoeinclus acuminatus, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 254 (1865) ; 



Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 375 (1877 : New Ireland) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 338 (Queensland) ; Tweedd. t. c. p. 834 (Butuan, 



May) ; Heine Sf Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 329 (1890 : 



Australia). 

 Tring-a crassirostris (nee Temm. $ Schl), Tacz. J. f. O. 1873, p. 103. 

 Pelidna acuminata, Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 328 (1874). 

 Tringa (Lirnnoeinclus) acuminata, Casteln. fy Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 384 (1877 : Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria) ; 



Ramsay, op. cit. ii. p. 198 (1878) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 



(1888).' 

 Actodromas acuminatus, Ridatv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 199 



(1880); Bean, op. cit. v. p". 164 (1882: Port Clarence, Alaska) ; 



Nelson, Cruise R. S. ' Corwin,' p. 86 (1883) ; Baird, Brewer, fy 



Ridgio. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 235 (1884) ; Coues, Key 



N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 628 (1884) ; Stejn. Ball. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 29, p. 115 (1885: Bering Isl.) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 



p. 130 (1887 : Commander Isl.). 

 Tringa (Actodromas) acuminata, Palmen, Vega-Exped., Fotjl. p. 223, 



tab. 4 (1887). 



Adult male in breeding- plumage. General colour above sandy 

 rufous, streaked with black down the centre of the feathers, these 

 black centres being very much more distinct on the scapulars and 

 inner secondaries, where the rufous margins are very bright ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dusky black, the lateral ones 

 sandy rufous barred with black ; lesser wiug-coverts dull brown, 

 the median coverts brown, with blackish centres and ashy-fulvous 

 margins ; greater coverts uniform dusky brown with white tips ; the 

 bastard-wing uniform brown, the primary-coverts blackish, the 

 inner ones tipped with white; quills brown, dusky blackish at th« 

 tips and along the outer webs, the shafts for the most part white, 

 brown towards the bases ; the secondaries brown, with a little 

 white at the base of the inner webs, and narrowly fringed with 

 white near the tips, the inner ones a little more broadly ; tail- 

 feathers ashy brown fringed with white round the ends, the centre 

 ones blackish and extended a little beyond the ends of the others 

 orown of head bright sandy rufous minutely streaked with black 

 lores and a distinct eyebrow white, with narrow streaks of blackish 

 sides of face also white with dusky streaks, the ear-coverts tinged 

 with rufous ; under surface of body white, the chin unspotted, the 

 throat, fore-neck, and chest tinged with sandy rufous, and minutely 

 spotted with dusky black, which sometimes takes the form of 

 longitudinal streaks or arrow-head bars, the latter form of markings 

 being especially distinct on the sides of the body ; breast and 

 abdomen white, the latter with a few linear streaks of black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, those round the bend of the wing 

 mottled with blackish bases ; lower primary-coverts dusky with 

 whitish tips ; quills dusky below : " bill blackish brown, browner 

 or reddish brown at the angle of the mouth, clear grey at the base 

 of the lower mandible ; feet yellowish ochre, tinged with olive, 

 darker on the joints ; iris dark brown " (Dyboivski). Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 14, wiug 5 - 4, tail 2-1, tarsus 1*2. 



