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SCOLOPACIDJE. 
Heteropygia Cougs, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861, p. 190, July. Type (by 
original designation): Tringa bonapartei~ Tringa fuscicollis Vieillot. 
Delopygia Cougs, ib. (note). Alternative name for Heteropygia . 
Neopisobia Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. iii. pt. 3, p. 245, August 18tb, 1913. 
Type (by monotypy) : Totanus damacensis Auet. not Horstield = Tringa 
subminuta Middend. 
Pisobia ruficollis (Pallas). (24-545.) 
Trgnga ruficollis Pallas, Iteise Russ. Reichs. vol. iii. p. 700, 1770 
(pref. Feb. 10th, O.S.) : Siberia. (Fig* Gould, vi. pi. 31; Math, 
pis. 159-100.) 
Tringa albescens Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois. 7e livr. vol. i. 
pi. 41, Feb. 1821: Australia. 
Totanus damacensis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. pt. 1, p. 192, 
May 1821 : Java. 
Trynga salina Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. vol. ii. p. 199, 1827 : Mongolia. 
Calidris australis Lesson, Traite d’Orn. 7e livr. p. 558, April 9th, 1831 (ex 
Cuvier MS.). New name for Tringa albescens Temm. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Australia and New Zealand (breeding 
in the Northern Hemisphere). 
Pisobia subminuta (Middendorff). (24-553.) 
Tringa subminuta Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 222, 
1851: Siberia. (Fig. Math. pis. 159-100.) 
Pisobia subminuta boireri Mathews, Emu, vol. xvi. p. 35, July 1st, 1916 : 
Fitzroy River, North-West Australia. 
Distr. —Siberia southwards to Australia (one record). 
Genus LIMNOCINCLUS Gould. 
Limnocinclus Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. vol. ii. p. 254, Dec. 1805. 
Type (by subsequent designation), Salvadori, Orn. Pap. e Mol. 
vol. iii. p. 312, 1882) : Totanus acuminatus Horsfield. 
Limnocinclus acuminatus (Horsfield). (24-500.) 
Totanus acuminatus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. pt. i. 
p. 192, May 1821 : Java. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 30 ; Math, 
pi. 101 ; and Dresser, ix. pi. 712.) 
Tringa australis Jardine & Selby, Illustr. Orn. vol. ii. pi. 91, Aug. 1830 : New 
Holland. Not Gmelin, Sy*t. Nat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 679, April 20th, 1789. 
Limnocinclus acuminatus rufescens Mathewa, Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xxxvi. p. 82, 
May 25th, 1916 : North-West Australia. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Australia and New Zealand, and as 
far east as Hawaiian and Gilbert Islands (breeding in the 
Northern Hemisphere). 
Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 
Erolia Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 55, April 14th, 1816. Type 
(by monotypy) : Erolia cane ij at a Vieillot = Scolopax tesiacea 
Yroeg. 
