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TKINGA SUBAKQUATA. 



(PYGMY CURLEW.) 



Scolopax subarquata, Giild. Nov. Coram. Petrop. xix. p. 471, t. xviii (1775). 



Cape-Curlew, Latham, Synopsis, iii. pt. 1, p. 126 (1785). 



Pygmy Curlew, Latham, Synopsis, iii. pt. 1, p. 127 (1785). 



Scolopax africana, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 655 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Scolopax pygmwa, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 655 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Numenius africanus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 712 (1790). 



Numenius pygmceus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 712 (1790). 



Scolopax dethardingii, Siemssen, Handb. Mecklenb. Land- u. Wasservogel, p. 169 (1794). 



Tringa islandica, Retzius, Fauna Suecise, p. 192 (1800, nee Linn.). 



"Numenius subarquata (Giild.)," Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 276, pi. 21 (1803). 



Numenius pusillus, Bechst, Gemeinn. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. iii. p. 152 (1809). 



Numenius ferrugineus, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 356 (1810). 



Trynga falcinella, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 188 (1811). 



Tringa subarquata (Giild.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 393 (1815). 



Tringa pygmcea (Gm.), Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 30 (1816). 



Erolia variegata, Vieill. Analyse, p. 55 (1816). 



Falcinellus, Cuv. (Scolopax pygmcea, Gm.), Regne Animal, i. p. 486 (1817). 



Ancylocheilus, Kaup (Tringa subarquata, Giild.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 50 (1829). 



Pelidna subarquata (Giild.), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 657 (1831). 



Pelidna macrorhynchos, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 658 (1831). 



Tringa (Pelidna) chinensis, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 2 (1831). 



JErolia varia, Vieill. Gal. des Ois. ii. p. 89 (1834). 



Falcinellus cuvieri, Bp. Comp. List, p. 50 (1838). 



Schceniclus subarquatus (Giild.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 126 (1845). 



Erolia pygmcea (Gm.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 319 (1855). 



Ancylochilus subarquatus (Giild.), Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 256 (1865). 



Tringa subarcuata (Giild.), Pinsch & Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 761 (1870). 



Curlew Sandpiper, Pygmy Curlew, English ; Becasseau-cocorli, French ; Piovanello-panciarossa, 

 Italian ; Beggazzina-hamra, Maltese ; bogenschnabliger Strandlaufer, German ; Krombek- 

 Strandlooper, Dutch; Krumncebet Strandlober, Danish; Krumncebbet Strandvibe, Nor- 

 wegian ; Spof-snappa, Bdgnabbad Strandvipa, Swedish ; Pitkanokka sirridinen, Finnish. 



Figure notabiles. 

 D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 851 ; Temminck, PL Col. 510 ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 8 ; Rjserb. 

 Orn. Dan. taf. 34, and Suppl. taf. 16. figs. 1, 2; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 38. fig. 10, taf. 39. 



