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Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 Family SOOLOPAGIDM. 
No. 204. 
EROLIA FERRUGINEA CHINENSIS. 
EASTEEN CUELEW-SANDPIPEE. 
(Plate 162.)* 
Tringa {Pelidna) ohinensis Gray, Zool. Miscel., p. 2, 1831 ; China. 
Tringa {Pelidna) chinensis Gray, Zool. Miscel., p. 2, 1831. 
SchcBTiiclus chinensis id., List. Spec. Birds Brit. Mus,, pt. iii., p. 105, 1844. 
Schoeniclus suharquata (not Guldenstaedt) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 32, 1848. 
Tringa suharquata (not Guldenstaedt) Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, p. 220, 1851 ; Schrenck, 
Vogels des Amur-Landes, p. 421, 1860 ; Radde, Reisen Suden von. Ost-Sibir., p. 333, 
1863 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 198, 1878 ; Salvador!, Ornith. 
Papua, e Mol., Vol. III., p. 317, 1882 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 
1888 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 954, 1892 ; Ogilvie-Grant, 
Ibis 1910, p. 179. 
Pelidna suharquata (not Guldenstaedt) Taczanowski, Mem I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 
Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 925, 1893. 
Ancylochilus suharquatus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 256, 1865; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 586, 1896 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, p. 820, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 67, 1902 ; Hutton, Trans. New Zeal. 
Inst. 1903, Vol. XXXVI., p. 155, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 86, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 28, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 144, 1910, 
Erolia ferruginea (not Brunnich) Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 223, 1912. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Australia and Tasmania 
(New Zealand) in winter. 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. Head and hind-neck dark brown with rufous margins 
to the feathers, which is shown more intensely on the latter ; the feathers of the 
mantle, upper-back, and scapulars tipped with white, and spotted with chestnut 
on the margins ; lower-back blackish with pale edges to the feathers ; upper tail- 
coverts white, barred with black ; tail ash-grey with white shafts to the feathers ; 
lesser wing-coverts dark brown like the bastard-wing and primary-coverts, some 
of the latter tipped with white ; median coverts pale, as also the greater coverts 
which are tipped with white; primary-quills dark brown with wMte shafts and 
♦The Plate is lettered Erolia ferruginea. 
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