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The Curlew Sandpiper was not taken or observed by the naturalists of 

 the Princeton Expeditions. The only record from that region is a single 

 bird in the British Museum collected by Sir W. Burnett and Admiral 

 Fitzroy. The label on this bird, which is a female adult, is East Pata- 

 gonia; and it would appear that this nomad is of purely accidental 

 occurrence in the area under consideration. 



Genus GALLINAGO Leach. 



Gallinago, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm., etc., Brit. Mus. p 

 30 (1816); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIV. p 

 616(1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 165 (1899) 



Telmatias, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 979 



PelorJiyiichtis, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 119 (1829) . 



Nemoricola, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. VI. p. 491 (1837) 



Homoptilura, Gray, List Gen. Bds. 1840, p. 70 . 



Xylocota, Bonap. C. R. XLI. p. 660 (1855) . 



Canocorypha, Gray, List Gen. Bds. 1855, p. 19 . 



Spihtra, Bonap. C. R. XL III. p. 579 (1856). 



Geographical Range. — Almost cosmopolitan. 



Type. 



G. major. 

 G. stenura. 

 G. gallinago. 

 G. nemoricola. 

 G. undiilata. 

 G. janiesoni. 

 G. aucklandica. 

 G. solitaria. 



Gallinago Paraguay^ (Vieillot). 



Becasiiia prima, Az2S2i, Apunt. III. p. 271 (1805). 



Scolopax paraguaicc, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. III. p. 356 (1816: ex 



Azara) ; Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 1 18 (Chili, found in large flocks in 



the marshes during winter) ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 24 (1847). 

 Scolopax magel/aiiiciis, King, Zool. Journ. IV. p. 93 (1828 : Straits of 



Magellan). 

 Scolopax ( Telmatias) magellanicns, Darw. Voy . Beagle, Birds, p. 131 



(1841 : Maldonado : East Falklands). 

 Scolopax [Telmatias) paragiiicE, Darw. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 131 (1841 : 



Valparaiso ; Maldonado ; La Plata). 

 Gallinago magellanicns, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. part III. p. 1 1 1 (1844: 



Straits of Magellan and Falkland Islands) ; Des Murs in Gay's Hist. 



Zool. I. p. 427 (1847) ; Scl. P. Z. S. i860, p. 387 (Falkland Is.) ; 



