AVES. 131 
Tringa macvlata^ Vieill. (T. pectoralis, Say.), lias again occurred in Eng- 
land. II. Stevenson, Zool. p. 9807. 
Tringa pygmcea (Lath.) {T. platyrliyncha, Temm.), various observations 
upon it. It has the chin bare, a character unique and hitherto unnoticed 
among other European Tringce. G. Lunel, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1866, pp, 
31-37, pi. i. 
Totanus (^ITelodromas) ochropus is figured on its singularly placed nest. J. 
Gould, B. G. B. part viii. 
Actitis cmpiisay Gould, from Australia, is identified with A, liypoleucus of 
Europe. J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 263. 
Nnmenius australis^ Gould, is identified with N. cyanopus, Vieill., II. 
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Scolopaces, pp. 90, 91. J. Gould, cit. p. 277. 
Numenius urojrygialis, Gould, is referred to N. phceopm, Lath., II. Schlegel, 
Mus. P.-B., Scolopaces, p. 93. The two birds differentiated, .1. Gould, Handb. 
B. Austral, ii. p. 279. 
Numenius minutus, Gould, referred to N. minor, Miiller, H. Schlegel, Mus. 
P.-B., Scolopaces, p. 101. J. Gould, Handb. B. Austral, ii. p. 280, 
CHARADRIIDiE. 
Schlegel, H. Museum dHIistoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas, 
7rae Livraison, Cursores. Leyde : 1865. Royal 8vo. 
pp. 80. 
The general remarks already made on the author’s Catalogues 
of Rain and Scolopaces apply equally to this work. The confu- 
sion hitherto existing in tlic nomenclature of the Bcolopacidm 
was only equalled by that found in the Charadriidee. The author 
divides his Cursores into two groups, Otides and Charadriu Of 
the former, the Otididoi will be noticed under the next family ; 
but the genera Cursorius, Glafeola, and (Edicnemus have to be 
mentioned here. The first genus is represented in the Leyden 
Museum by seven species, the second by five, and the third by 
seven. Of the Charadrii twenty-one species are referred to the 
genus Charadrius (including the smaller forms more commonly 
termed jdSgialites) , three to Strepsilns, four to Morinellus, three 
with a conspecies ” to Pluvialis, thirteen to Vanellus, nine to 
Lobivanellus, and six to Hcematopus , To these should be here 
added, from the catalogue of Scolopaces/^ three species of 
Recurvirostra and five of Himantopus, which will show the wealth 
of the museum under the author’s direction, to contain 709 
mounted skins and 17 osteological specimens. We are sure we 
are only echoing the wish of naturalists of every country when 
we express our sincere hope that Prof. Schlegel may be able to 
bring his arduous series of catalogues to a successful termina- 
tion. Their utility is so obvious that it seems almost ungra- 
cious to say a word of complaint respecting what we must term 
the awkward and inconvenient system of pagination adopted in 
them — awkward when a student wishes to find any particular 
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