258 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Synonym : — 



Mesoscolopax mimdus Bnller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 181. 



Range: — New Zealand (accidental: one occurrence. Lake 

 EUesmere, June 1900) ; extralimital. 



Genus LIMOSA. 



Liinosa Schaeffer, Museum Ornith. 1789, p. 52. 

 Type (by tautonymy) : L. limosa (Linne). 



Limosa lapponica baueri Naumann. Eastern Barred-rumped 

 God wit. 

 Limosa haueri Naumann, ViJgel Deutschl. vol. viii. 1836, 

 p. 429 : Victoria. 



Synonyms : — 



Limosa lapponica, var. novfPzenlandics Gray, Voy. 'Erebus 'and 

 ' Terror; Birds, 1845, p. 13 : New Zealand. 



Limosa uropyf/iaJis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 38 : Victoria. 



Liinosa nov(Pzealnndire Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 181. [The type- 

 locality o? Scolopi.r lapponica Linne, Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. 1758, 

 p. 147, is Lapland.] 



Range : — New Zealand (regular and numerous visitor) ; 

 extralimital. 



Liinosa liinosa hsemastica (Linne). Hudsonian Godwit. 



ScolojJax hamastica Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 

 p. 147 : Hudson Bay, North America. 



Synonym : — 



Limosa hndsonica Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p, 185. [The type-locality 

 oi Scnhpax limosa Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 147, is 

 Europe (Sweden).] 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental : one occurrence. Lake 

 Ellesmere, Canterbury, 4 JNIarcli 1902) ; extralimital. 



Genus IIETEROSCELUS. 



Heteroscelus Baird, Rep. Expl. Surv. Railr. Pac. Ocean, 

 vol. ix. 1858, p. 734. 



Type (by original designation) : H. brevipes (Vieillot). 



