TRINGA ACUMINATA. 



(SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER.) 



Totanus acuminatus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821). 



Trinqa australis, Jard. & Selby, Til. Orn. ii. pi. 91 (1829, nee Gmel.). 



Schmniclus australis (Jard. & Selby), Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 105 (1844, nee Gmel.). 



Tringa subarquata, S. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 110 (1839-44, nee Giild.). 



Tringa pectoralis, Gurney, Zoologist, 1849, p. 2392 (nee Say). 



Tringa rufescens, Midd. Sibir. Reise, ii. pt. 2, p. 221 (1851, nee Vieill.). 



Pelidna australis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 92 (1855, nee Gmel.). 



Actiturus australis, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 597 (1856, nee Gmel.). 



Tringa acuminata (Horsf.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 316. 



Limnocinclus acuminatus (Horsf.), Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 254 (1865). 



Tringa crassirostris, Taczanowsky (nee Temm. & Schleg.), J. f. O. 1873, p. 103. 



Pelidna acuminata (Horsf.), Salvadori, Ucc. Borneo, p. 323 (1874). 



Trinqa (Limnocinclus) accuminata, Casteln. & Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 384 



(1877). 

 Actodromas acuminatus (Horsf.), Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 199 (1880). 

 Actodromas acuminata (Horsf.), Nelson, Cruise of R.S. ' Corvvin,' p. 86 (1883). 

 Tringa (Actodromas) acuminata (Horsf.), Palmen, Vega-Exped., Fogl. p. 323 (1887). 

 Heteropygia acuminata (Horsf.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 566 (1896). 



Figuras notabiles. 

 Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 91 ; Gould, B. of Austral, vi. pi. xxx. ; Nelson, Nat. Hist. 

 Coll. in Alaska, pi. vii. ; Sclater, Ibis, 1893, pi. v. 



Ad. supra nigro-fuscus, plumis conspicue rufescente et cinereo marginatis, pileo magis rufescente : uropygio 

 et supracaudalibus nigris : remigibus nigro-f uscis, scapis sordide albidis : rectricibus nigricantibus 

 anguste albo marginatis, medianis elongatis et marginibus rufescente tinctis, omnibus acuminatis 

 et cauda cuneiforma : stria superciliari alba, nigro guttata: gula, gutture et pectore albis, nigro 

 guttatis: corpore reliquo subtiis albo, nigro-fusco squamato : pectore et hypochondriis rufescente 

 lavatis : abdomine medio fere immaculato : rostro nigro-fusco, ad basin olivaceo : pedibus oiivaceo- 

 ochraceis : iride fusciL 



Juo. corpore supra adulto similis, sed sordidior et saturation stria superciliari albidiore et majore : corpore 

 subtiis nee squamato, sed mento et gula, fere albis : gutture et pectore bruunescenti-cervinis vix fusco 

 striatis : corpore reliquo subtiis albo. 



Adult Male (Shanghai, April). Upper parts with the feathers blackish brown, broadly margined with 

 rufous and ashy grey, those on the crown rather more rufescent ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 black; quills blackish brown, with dull white shafts; tail-feathers blackish, narrowly margined with 

 white, the median ones longer than the others, and with the margins tinged with rufous, all the 



