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222a. Teinga ocHRorus assami, subsp. n. 

 Eastern Green Sandpiper. 



Differs from Tringa ocliropus Linne in being much 

 paler above and slightly larger. 



Type, Assam, No. 462. 



Range, Siberia (breeding 1 ) to Malay Archipelago 

 (Australia ?). 



236. Gallinago Hardwickii 



replaces 

 Gallinago australis australis. 



Scolopax australis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., 

 p. Lxv., 1801 : is pre-occupied by Scolopax australis 

 Scopoli, Annus I., Hist. Nat., p. 94, 1769 ; and the next 

 name is 



Scolopax hardwickii Gray, Zool. Miscell., p. 16, 1831 ; 

 Tasmania. 



283. IxOBRYCHUS MINUTUS ALISTERT, Sllbsp. 11. 



Eastern Little Bittern. 



Head, back and tail dark bronzy-green ; primaries 

 black, wing-coverts buff ; bend of the wing chestnut, 

 like the sides of the head and back of the neck ; the 

 feathers on the under-side of the neck are reddish- 

 buff ; feathers of the lower-throat black with brown 

 edges ; under-surface light brown. 



Type, New South Wales. L ^ fl«y, jy*^ , •*,/. i Vj 



Range, New South Wales. 



As Ardea pusilla Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist Nat., 

 Vol. XIV., p. 432, 1817, is pre-occupied by Ardea 

 pusilla P. L. S. Midler, Nat. Syst., Suppl., p. 111. 1776, 

 it is necessary to describe the above bird as new. 



293. Add as synonym — 



Nettapus bicolor Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 

 11th year, No. 6, July 7th, 1844, col. 127; Queensland. 



