Order CHABADRIIFORMES Family SCOLOPACIDM 
No. 203. 
LIMNOCINCLUS ACUMINATUS. 
SHARP-TAILED STINT. 
(Plate 161 .)* 
Totanus A<TiJMiNATijs Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soo. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 192, 1821 ; 
Java. 
Totanus acuminatus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 192, 1821. 
Tringa australis (not Gmelin) Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. II., pi. 91, 1830 
(Australia). 
Schoeniclus australis (not Graelin) Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. in., p. 105, 1844 ; 
Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 30, 1847 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., 
Vol. II., App., p. 50, 1849. 
Tringa rufescens (not VieiUot) Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, p. 221, 1851. 
Actiturus australis (not Gmelin) Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., 
p. 597, 1856. 
Tringa acuminata Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1863, p. 316 ; Whitely, Ibis 1867, 
p. 205 ; Salvadori, Ornitb. Papua, e Mol., Vol. HI., p. 313, 1882 ; Seebohm, Geogr. 
Distr. Charadr., p. 441, 1887 ; BuUer, Birds New Zeal., Vol. II., p. 37, 1888 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 
Vol. IV., 1892, p. 950 ; Seebobm, Ibis 1893, p. 181, pi. 5 ; Taczanowski, Mem. 
I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX, p. 908, 1893 ; Dresser, Birds 
Europe, Suppl., p. 363, 1896 ; North, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. !^XII., 
p. 159, 1898 ; id.. Birds County Cumberl., p. 112, 1898. 
Limnocinclus acuminatus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 254, 1866 ; BuUer, 
Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1877, Vol. X., p. 197, 1878. 
Limnocinclus australis (not Gmelin), Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1872, Vol. V., p. 198, 
1873 
Tringa crassirostris (not Temminck and Schlegel) Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1873, 
p. 103. 
Pdidna acuminata Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., Vol. V., p. 323, 1879. 
Actodromas acuminata Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. III., p. 199, 1880 ; Baird, 
Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer., Vol. I., p. 235, 1884 ; Stejneger, 
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 115, 1885. 
* The Plate is lettered Erolia acuminata. 
