TOTANUS INCANUS. 



ULILI. 



" Ash-coloured Snipe," Latham, Gen. Synops. iii. p. 154 (1785). 



Scolopax incana, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788); Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 724 (1790). 



"Le Chevalier crndre/' Sonniui, Hist. Nat. Buffon, Ois. xxii. p. 101 (1803-4). 



Totanus incanus, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 400 (1816) ; id. Encycl. Meth. p. 1098 



(1823) ; Stephens, Shaw, Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 156 (1824) ; SchlegehMus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, 



p. 74 (partim) (1864) ■ Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 351; id. Rep. Voy. 'Challenger,' 



Birds, p. 99 (1881) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriida;, p. 360 (1887) ; Ramsay, Tab. List 



Austral. B. ed. 2, p. 20 (1888). 

 Scolopax solitaris, Bloxam, Voy. ' Blonde/ p. 252 (1826). 

 Totanus pedestris, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 552, partim (1831). 

 Totanus fuliginosus, Gould, Voy. 'Beagle/ Birds, p. 130 (1841) ; Gray & Mitchell, Gen. B. p. 573, 



pi. 154, partim (1846). 

 Scolopax undulata, Forster, Descr. Anim. (ed. Lichtenstein), p. 173 (1844). 

 Totanus pohjnesice, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 237, pi. 65. fig. 1 ; Hartlaub, Arch. f. Natur- 



gesch. 1852, i. p. 120; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 169. 

 Totanus oceanicus, Lesson, Compl. Buffon, p. 244 (1847) ; Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & 



Orn. p. 318 (1858). 

 Totanus solita?ius, Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 170. 



Gambetta fuliginosa and G. oceanica, Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, xliii. p. 597 (1856). 

 Heteroscelus brevipes, Baird, Expl. & Surv. R. R. Route Pacif. ix. pt. ii. pp. 728 and 734 (1858) ; 



id. B. N. Am. pi. 88 (1860) ; Dall & Bannister, Tr. Chicago Acad. 1869, p. 293 {nee Vieillot). 

 Totanus (Gambetta) incanus, G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 50 (1859). 

 Totanus undulatus, Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1860, p. 437. 

 Totanus brevipes, Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 323 {nee Vieillot). 

 Heteroscelus incanus, Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 503 (1876) ; Elliott, Monogr. Seal Isl. Alaska, 



p. 130 (1882) ; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-B. N. Am. i. p. 290 (partim) (1884) . 

 Heteractitis incanus, Stejneger, Auk, 1884, p. 236 ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 132 (1885) ; 



id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 133; Turner, Auk, 1885, p. 157; id. Contr. N. H. Alaska, 



p. 148 (1886); Nelson (& Henshaw), Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, p. 118 (1887). 



[N.B. — The above list of synonyms and references is based on that given by Dr. Stejneger in his 

 'Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka ' (Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus, no. 29), as he seems to be the first author who clearly shewed the distinction 

 between this species and the nearly allied Totanus brevipes of Vieillot. It might yet be extended.] 



This species, first made known by Latham from specimens in the Banksian collection 

 obtained at Eimeo and Palmerston Island, has been the cause of much perplexity to 

 ornithologists, as the above long list of synonyms will show. According to Forster it 



