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SCOLOPACID^C. 
Genus VETOLA Mathews. 
Vetola Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. iii. p. 101, May 2nd, 1913. Type 
(by original designation) : Scolopax lapponica Linne. 
Vetola lapponica (Linne). 
Distr. —Europe, Asia to Australia. 
[Vetola lapponica lapponica (Linne). (24-373.) 
Scolopax lapponica Linn6, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 147, Jan. 1st’ 
1758: Sweden, Europe. (Dresser, viii. pi. 573.) 
Distr .—Europe (breeding). Winters in Africa and S.W. 
Asia. Extra-limitaL] 
Vetola lapponica baueri (Naumann). (24-379.) 
Lirnosa baueri Naumann, Vogel Deutschl. vol. viii. p. 429 (pref. 
Oct.), 1S36 : New Holland=Victoria. (Fig. Duller, 2nd ed. 
pi. 28; Gould, vi. pi. 29 ; Math. pi. 148.) 
Limosa lapponica var. novmsealandise Gray, Voy. * Ereb.’ & ‘Terr.,’ Birds, p. 13, 
before Oct. (Jtme?) 1845 : New Zealand. 
Lirnosa foxii Peale, U.S. Exydor. Expcd., Birds, p. 231, Oct. 1848: Samoa. 
Limosa uropygialis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1848, p. 38, Nov. 14th: 
Australia. 
IAmosa australasiarui Salvadori, Pap. e Mol. vol. iii. p. 329. Dec. 1882: as 
synonym of baueri (ex Gray, List Sp. Birds B.M. pt. iii. p. 95, u. n., 1844). 
Limosa brevipes Sharpe, Cat. Birds, vol. xxiv. p. 378 (pref. July 10th), 1896: as 
synonym of novwzeabtmlue (ex Gray, as abovo, n. n., before Oct. 1844). 
IAmosa australis Mathews, Check-list Birds Austr. p. 40, Feb. 16th, 1920: 
as synonymn of baueri (ex Bennett, Cat. Spec. Nat. Hist. Austr. Mus. p. 48, 
after July 26th, 1837, n. n. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Australia and New Zealand (breeding 
in the Northern Hemisphere). 
Vetola haemastica (Linne). (24-388.) 
Scolopax haemastica Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 147, Jan. 1st, 1758 : 
Hudson Bay, North America. 
Scolopax hudsonica Latham, Index Orn. vol. ii. p. 720 (before Dec. 9th), 1790: 
Hudson Bay. 
Distr .—New Zealand (accidental : one occurrence, Lake Elles¬ 
mere, Canterbury, 4 th March, 1902). Extra-limital. 
Migrant to Guam and elsewhere to the north of Australia. 
Genus TRINGA Linne. 
Tring a Linn6, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 148, Jan. 1st, 1758. Type (by 
tautonymy) : Tringa ocrophus L. 
Tringa ocrophus Linn6. (24-437.) 
Tringa ocrophus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 149, Jan. 1st, 1758: 
Sweden. (Fig. Math. iii. pi. 150; Dresser, viii. pi. 564.) 
