456 SCLATEK AND SALVIN ON AMERICAN LIMICOL,*:. [May 6, 



Buenos Ayres {Hudson), and the Falklands (Lecomte). As already 

 suggested"(P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144), we think the name fuscicollis 

 of Vieillot ought to be used for this species, it being, in our 

 opinion, manifestly the bird called by Azara " Chorlito pestorejo 

 pa?-do." 



4. Tringa minutilla (Vieill.). 



Of the specimens of this species in Salvin and Godman's col- 

 lection, a list has recently been published in Sharpe and Dresser's 

 'Birds of Europe' (pts. xi. & xii.). It extends throughout Cen- 

 tral and Southern America, at least as far south as South Brazil. 



These four are the only true Tringce of which we have seen 

 specimens from any part of the Neotropical region. Cabanis (in 

 Schomburgk's ' Guiana '), Pr. Max, and Burmeister all include the 

 Knot {Tringa canutus) as occurring on the eastern coast of South 

 America ; but we have never met with examples of this bird from 

 any locality so far south. 



4. LlMOSA. 



The only Godwit in South America is L. hudsonica, which de- 

 scends down to the Magellan Straits and Falklands *. Limosa 

 australis, G. R. Gray (Mus. Brit. Cat. of Gall. &c. 1844, p. 95), is 

 founded on a specimen of this species in winter plumage. 



Limosa fedoa (the second North-American species) also occurs 

 in Guatemala f and on the coast of Honduras J; but we are not 

 aware that it goes further south. 



5. NUMENIUS. 



We have as yet met with only two species of Curlew in South 

 America, both referable to northern species, namely Numenius liud- 

 sonicus and N. borealis. 



N. hudsonicus extends all over Central and Southern America. 

 Our specimens are from Guatemala, Amazonia, and Chili. It is 

 called N. phceopus by Cabanis (Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 757) and 

 v. Pelzeln (Orn. Bras. p. 308), and N. brasiliensis by Pr. Max. 

 and Burmeister. 



N. borealis (as Prof. Schlegel has already shown, Mus. d. P.-B. 

 Scolopaces, p. 101) also extends into Southern Brazil, where 

 it is the iV". brevirostris of Lichtenstein, Temrainck, and v. Pel- 

 zeln. The same species has recently been obtained in Southern 

 Peru and Chili, and is well described by Philippi and Landbeck 

 (Wiegm. Arch. 1866, p. 129) as N. microrhynchus. 



The third Curlew of North America (N. longirostris), so far as 

 we know, only extends as far south as Guatemala. 



Of the Neotropical Limicolae generally it may be said that Gal- 



* Sclatcr, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 387. 

 t Salvin, Ibis. 1865, p. 190. 

 t Leyland, P.Z.S. 1850. p. 64 



