Genus— T R I N G A . 
Tringa Linne, Syst. Nat., lOth ed., p. 148, 1758 . . Type T. ocrophus. 
Also spelt — 
Trynga Vroeg. Cat. Rais. d’Ois. Adumb., p. 7, 1764. 
Tryngaa Gloger, Hand-u-Hilsfb. Naturg., p. 425, 1842. 
Helodr(ytnas Kaup, Skizz. Entwick-Gesch. Nat. Syst., 
p. 144, 1829 . . . . . . . . . . . . Type T, ocrophus. 
Also spelt — 
Helodromaf id., ib., p. 195. 
Helodromvs Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 572, 1846. 
Helodromos Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLITI., p. 597, 1856. 
Small Totanine Waders with straight biUs of medium length, very long wings, 
short legs, long toes, and medium length tails. 
The culmen is straight and of medium length, about equal to the 
metatarsus ; the groove in each mandible is more than hah the length of the 
culmen. The wings are very long and pointed with the first primary longest. 
The metatarsus is regularly scutellated both in front and behind and is 
comparatively short ; it is less than one-fourth the length of the wing and 
also less than one and a half times the middle toe. The claws are very long. 
All the other characters as in Iliornis. 
The necessity of considering the species T. ocrophus to be the type of 
Linne’s genus Tringa has been shown by me in the Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 5, 1911. It might be noticed too that Seebohm also observed this but 
rejected it, as he wrote: “ It \T. ocrophus'] is a Totanus ” ; — but Tringa surely 
had the prior claim. 
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