LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CXVII. Genus ACTITIS. 
Actitis Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. and Av., p. 263, (pref. April) 1811. Type (by subsequent designation, Arner. O.U. 
Comm. Check-List N. Am. Birds, p. 158, 1886) : Tringa hypoleucos Linne. 
Tringoides Bonaparte, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, Vol. II., p. 326, “ 1828 ” [November, 1827.] Type 
(by subsequent designation, Richmond (3), p. 627, Aug. 16th=25th, 1917) : Tringa macidaria “ Wils.” 
Guinetta Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed,, p. 68, April 1840 : Type (by original designation) : Tringa hypoleucos 
Linne. 
132. ACTITIS HYPOLEUCUS. COMMON SANDPIPER. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 35 (pt. xxxii.), Sept. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 3, pi. 153, 
Aug. 18th, 1913. 
Tringa hypoleucos Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 149, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Sweden. 
Trynga ralloides Vroeg, Catal. d’Ois. Adumb., p. 47, Sept. 1764: Holland. 
Tringa aurita Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. lxvi., 1801, after May : New South Wales. 
Totanus guinetta Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 24, Dee. 1817. New name for Tringa hypoleucos Linne. 
Trynga leucoptera Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Yol. II., p. 196, 1827 : Siberia. 
Actitis cinclus Brehm, Naturg. Vogel Deutschl., p. 648, (pref. July) 1831 : Germany. 
Actitis stagnatilis Brehm, ib., p. 649 : Germany. 
Actitis empusa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, p. 222, March 29th, 1848 : Port Essington, Northern 
Territory. 
Actitis megarhynchos Brehm, Vollstand. Vogelfang, p. 314, 1855, pref. Nov. 8th, 1854 : “ Im Morgenlande, selten 
im Sudeuropa.” 
Acitis cinclus major and minor A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml., p. 13, 1866. Nom. nud. 
Distribution. Winter visitor to Australia, breeding in the northern hemisphere. 
CXVIII. Genus TEREKIA. 
Terekia Bonaparte, Comp. List Birds, Europe and N. Amer., p. 52, April 14th, 1838. Type (by monotypy) : 
Totanus javanicus Horsfield = Scolopax cinerea Gueldenstadt. 
Xenus Ivaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Nat. Syst., p. 115, pref. April, 1829. Type (by monotypy) : Scolopax cinerea 
Gueldenstadt. 
Not Xenos Rossi, Mantissa Insect., Vol. II., p. 114, 1794. 
Simorhynchus Keyserling und Blasius, Wirbelth. Europa’s, p. lxxiv., (before April) 1840 : Type (by monotypy) : 
S. cinerea Gueldenstadt. 
Not of Merrem, Ersch und Gruber, Allg. Ency., Vol. II., p. 405, 1819. 
Rhynchosimus Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 326, (pref. Sept.) 1890. New name for Simorhynchus 
Keys, und Blasius. 
133. TEREKIA CINEREA. TEREK SANDPIPER. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 34 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 3, pi. 154, Aug. 18th, 
1913. 
Scolopax Cinerea Gueldenstadt, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., Vol. XIX., p. 473, pi. 19, 1774 : Shore of 
Caspian Sea. 
Scolopax terek Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 724, before Dec. 9th, 1790. New name for preceding. 
Totanus javanicus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 193, 1821 : Java. 
Scolopax sumatrana Raffles, ib., pt. n., p. 327, 1822 : Sumatra. 
Fedoa terekensis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. i., p. 83, 1824. New name for S. cinerea 
Gueldenstadt. 
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Limosa recurvirostra Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 181, 1827. New name for S. cinerea Gueldenstadt. 
Limicola indiana Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 7, p. 554, April 9th, 1831 : India. 
Totanus terekius Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 369, 1888. New name for T. cinerea. 
Terekia cinerea australis Mathews, Austral Av. Ree., Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 69, July 21st, 1917 : Melville Island 
Northern Territory. ‘ ' 
Distribution. Winter visitor to Australia, breeding in the northern hemisphere. 
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