LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Ordee charadriiformes. 
Family ARENARIIDiE. 
XCIV. Genus AREN ARIA. 
Arenaria Brisson, Ornith., Vol. I., p. 48, Vol. V.,p. 132, 1760. Type (by tautonymy) : Arenaria = Tringa inter pr ns 
Linnd. 
Morinella Zi mm erman, Bartram’s Trav. Carolina, German edn., p. 291, 1793. Type (by monotypy) ; Morinella 
americana Zimmermann = Tringa interpres Linne. 
Morinella Meyer und Wolf, Taschenb. d. Vogel, pt. ii., p. 383, note, (pref. March) 1810. Type (by monotypy) : 
M. collaris Meyer und Wolf = Tringa interpres Linne. 
Strepsilas Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. and Av., p. 263, (pref. April) 1811. Type (by monotypy) : T. interpres Linne. 
Cinclus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 2nd ed., p. 85, Sept. 1841. Type (by original designation) : T. interpres Linne. 
Not of Borkhausen, Deutsch. Fauna, Vol. I., p. 300, 1797, 
106. ARENARIA INTERPRES. TURNSTONE. 
Tringa interpres Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 148, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Europe. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 39 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 1, pi. 125, April 
2nd, 191$. 
Tringa oahuensis Bloxham, Voy. " Blonde,” Sandwich Is. p. 251 1826 = Feb. 20th, 1827 : Sandwich Is. 
Charadrius cinclus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso -Asiat., Vol. II., p. 148, 1827 : Siberia. 
[Strepsilas interpres ] pacificus Nelson, Cruise of the Corwin in 1881, p. 83, 1883, pref. March 3rd : Behring Sea, Coast 
and East Asia. 
Arenaria interpres nova Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. ; Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 69, July 21st, 1917 .• Rottnest Island, West 
Australia. 
Distribution. Winter visitor to Australia, breeding in the northern hemisphere. 
Family H.EMATOPODIDA2. 
XCV. Genus HAEM AT OPUS. 
Haem atop US Linn6, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 152, Jan. 1st, 1758. Type (by monotypy) : Hoematopus ostralegus 
Linn6. 
Ostralega Brisson, Ornith., Vol. I., p. 46, Vol. V., p. 38, 1760. Type (by tautonymy) : H. ostralegus Linne. 
Ostrelaga Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ency. Meth. Ornith., Vol. I., pp. lxxxii., 25, 1791. Type (by monotypy): H. 
ostralegus Linne. 
Ostralegus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. xii., 1852 (? 1853). Type (by monotypy) : Hcematopus longirostris 
Vieillot. 
Melanibyx Reichenbach, ib. Type (by monotypy) : H. niger Temminck. 
107. HA3MAT0PUS OSTRALEGUS. PIED OYSTERCATCHER. 
[Hoematopus ostralegus Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 152, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Sweden, Europe. Extra-limital.] 
Gould. Vol. VI., pi. 7 (pt. xviii.), March 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 1, pi. 126, April 
2nd, 1913. 
Hoematopus longirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XV., p. 410, Sept. 13th, 1817 : “ Australasia ” = 
New South Wales. 
Hoematopus picatus King, Survey Intertrop. Coasts Austr., Vol. II., p. 420, " 1827 ” = April 26th, 1826. No 
locality == Point Torment, North-west Australia. 
Hcematopus australasianus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 6, April 1st, 1838 : New South Wales. 
Hcematopus longirostris mattingleyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 213, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cooktown, Queens- 
land. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
108. HA2MAT0PUS NIGER. BLACK OYSTERCATCHER. 
[Hoematopus niger Temminck, Manuel d’Orn., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 533, Oct. 21st, 1820 : South Africa. Extra- 
limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 8 (pt. xviii.), March 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 1, pi. 127, April 
2nd, 1913. 
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