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Le Courly tachete de Visle de Lugon, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 85, pi. 48, " Lu^on." 

 Tantalus variegatus, Scopoli, Del. FL Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 92, no. 78 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Scolopax lusoniensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 656, no. 21 (1788), ex Sonn.; G. R. Gray, Hand-list, 



no. 10252. 

 Numenius atricapillus , Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 303 (1817), ex Sonn. 

 Numenius luzoniensis (Gm.), v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, pi. 159. 



Professor Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 93) identifies this species with 

 Numenius ])]iaeopus. Sonnerat's plate and description do not perfectly agree with that 

 species, more especially as he describes and figures the crown of the head as being 

 black. Mr. vSwinhoe, who considers N. uropygialis, Gould, distinct from N. phceojms, 

 has identified Mr. Gould's species with that described by Sonnerat fP. Z. S. 1871, p. 410, 

 no. 572). Mr. Dresser (Birds of Eur. pt. 17) has united N. phaeopus with N. 

 uropygialis, and regards Sonnerat's plate as having been drawn from a Philippine 

 example of the common Whimbrel. 



Courly hrun de Visle de Lugon, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 85, pi. 47. 



Tantalus rufus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 92, no. 77 (1786), ex Sonn. 



Tantalus manillensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 649, no. 12 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Ibisfuscata, VieUl. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xvi. p. 16 (1817), ex Sonn. ; Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 372. 



I am unable to determine this species ; nor has it been recognized since Sonnerat 

 published its description. No author appears to have suggested its identity with any 

 known species. But, curiously enough, Mr. G. R. Gray, in the index (Hand-list, iii. 

 pp. 235, 268), refers Vieillot's title fuscata, and Gmelin's title manillensis, both being 

 founded on Sonnerat's plate {I. c), to no. 10234 of his Hand-list. This is the number 

 pertaining to Tantalus alUcollis, Gm., the young of Tantalus melanopis, Gm. ; but the 

 two titles above given are not added as synonyms, nor do they appear, although 

 indexed, in any part of the work. From this it may be inferred that Mr. Gray at one 

 time identified Sonnerat's Courly brun with the South- American species. The elements 

 of Sonnerat's short description are manifestly taken from some form of the genus Ibis. 

 and not of Numenius. 



TOTANIN^. 



Rhyacophilus, Kaup. 

 182. Rhyacophilus glareola. 



Tringa glareola, Gm. S. N. i. p. 677, no. 21 (1788); Kittlitz, Liitke, Voy. (Postels) iii. p. .327; 



v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, no. 164. 

 Actitis^ glareola (Gm.), Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 96, no. 160. 



' Actitis, Kaup, Prodroraus, p. 262 (ISll), is Kaup's title for an incongruous group consisting oi iHcohjja.r 

 limosa, S. totanus, Trinrja puf/nax, and T. hypoleuvos. 



