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Genus PELIDNA Cuvier. 



Pelidna Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 181 7, 490. Type, Tringa 

 alpina LiNNiEUS. 



[243.] Pelidna alpina (Linn^us). 



Tringa alpina Linn^us, S. N, ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. 

 Pelithia alpina C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 183 1, 661. 



243«. Pelidna alpina pacific a (Coues). 



Pelidna pacijica Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 186 r, 



189. 

 Pelidna alpina pacijica Stejneger, Bull, U. S. Nat. Mus. , 

 VIII, 1885, 120. 



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 Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 



Erolia Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 55. Type, Erolia variegata 

 Vieillot (= Tringa ferrnginea Brunnich). 



244. Erolia ferruginea (Brunnich). 



IVinga ferrnginea Brunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, 53. 

 Erolia ferruginea A. O. U. Committee. 



Erolia replaces Ancylocheilus (Kaup, 1829) of the Check-List. 

 It refers unquestionably to the Curlew Sandpiper, although 

 described and figured by Vieillot as a three-toed species. 



Genus OXYECHUS Reichenbach. 



Oxyechus Reichenbach, Syst. Av., 1852, xviii. Type 

 Charadrius vociferus Linn^us. 



27o. Oxyechus vociferus (Linn^us). 



Charadrius vociferus Linn^us, S. N. ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. 

 Oxyechus vociferus Reichenbach, Syst. Av., 1852, xviii. 



