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Genus CANUTUS. 

 Canutus Brelim, Vogel Deutschl. 1831, p. 653. 

 Type (by tautonymy) : C. canutus (Linne). 



Canutus canutus (Linne). Knot. 



Tringa canutus Linne, Syst. Nat, 10th ed. 1758, p. 150 : 

 Europe (Sweden). 



Synonym : — 



Tringa caimtus Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 187. 



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



Note : — The foregoing list of Charadriidse would be very 

 considerably lengthened were specimens collected ; it is ad- 

 visable to submit such captures to competent ornithologists, 

 as errors of identification are quite easily made, as is noted 

 under Pisubia minuta ruficollis (Pallas). 



Geijus CCENOCORYPHA. 

 Cvenoconjpha Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 

 p. 119. 



Type (by original designation) : C. aucklandica (Gray). 



Ccenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica (Gray). Auckland 

 Islands' Snipe. 

 Gallinago aucklandica Gray, Voy. ' Erebus ' and ' Terror,' 

 Birds, 1845, p. 13: Auckland Islands. 



Synonyms : — 



Scolopax holmesii Peale, United States Expl. Exped, 18-18, p, 229 : 



nom. nud., Auckland Islands. 

 Gallinago aucklandica Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p, 188. 



Range: — Auckland Islands (breeding), 



Ccenocorypha aucklandica pusilla (Buller). Chatham Islands' 

 Snipe. 

 Gallinago pusilla Buller, Ibis, 1869, p. 41 : Chatham 

 Islands. 



Synonym :— 



Gallinago pusilla Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 188, 



Range :— Chatham Islands (breeding). 



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