ACTITIS. 
genus, as Tringa Linne, but the constitutents cited by lUiger forbid such 
conclusion. In order to definitely fix the present species as type of lUiger’s 
species, it was formally designated by the American Ornithological Union’s 
Checklist Committee in 1886. Whatever method of fixing the type of Actitis 
be employed, whether efimination, restriction or direct type-designation, the 
result is that T. hypoleucos Linne must be so accepted. 
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