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



Pisobia minuta ruficollis Pallas. Eed-necked Sandpiper. 



Trynya ruficollis Pallas, Reise Russ. Reiclis. vol. iii. 1776, 

 p. 700 : Dauria {i. e. Amurland), 



Synonym : — 



Lhnonites ruficollis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 186. [The type- 

 locality of Trhuja minuta Leisler, Nachtr. Beclist. Naturjj. 

 Deutschl. 1812, p. 74, is Germany.] 



• Range : — ? New Zealand ; extralimital. 

 Note : — Buller included this upon Hutton's authority, 

 which is thus quoted : " Mr. E. Stead brought me a 

 specimen on July 2.2ud (1902) which he had shot near Lake 

 Ellesmere. It was a female, well on in the breeding-plumage, 

 and with well-developed eggs. It would, I think, have laid 

 the eggs in about a month after being shot. Another specimen 

 in non-breeding plumage was, I believe, sent to the British 

 Museum by Lord Ranfurly early in the year.^^ The latter 

 specimen was named by Grant (' Ibis,^ 1905, p. 5G4) 

 as Tringa suharquata (Giildenst.) [= Erolia ferruginea 

 (Briinnich)], who noted that it had been first identified 

 by Captain Hutton as a Pectoral Sandpiper (Heteropygia 

 acuminata) , and subsequently referred by him to the Red- 

 throated Stint {Linwtiifes rvficollis). \u view of such 

 diverse attempts at nomination, this record requires re- 

 investigation. 



Genus HETEROPYGIA. 

 Heterojnjgia Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 18G1, 

 p. 190. 



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



Heteropygia maculata acuminata (Ilorsfield). Sharp-tailed 

 Sandpiper. 



Totanus acuminatus Ilorsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. 

 1821, p. 192: Java. 



Synonym : — 



Heteropjigia acuminata Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 187. [The type- 

 locality of Trinija maculata Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 vol. xxxiv. 1819, p. 465, is United States.] 



Range : — New Zealand (irregular visitor) ; extralimital. 



