SCOLOPACIDiE. 
177 
Falcinellas Cuvier, R<*gne Anim. vol. i. p. 486 (1817=), Dec. 7th, 1816. Type 
(by monotypy): Scot. pygmtea Linn. [ = Gmelin] = S. testacea Yroeg. Not of 
Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 47, April 1816. 
Aneylocheilus Kaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. p. 50 (pref. April), 1829. 
Typo (by monotypy): Tringa subarquata Guelden8tiidt=S. testaceus Vroeg. 
Acrolia Temminok et Laugior, Planch. Color. d'Oia. vol. v. pi. 510, note 1830 : 
error only. 
Erolia testacea (Vroeg). 
Distr. —Europe, A sin, and Africa to Australia. 
[Erolia testacea testacea (Vroeg). (25-506.) 
Scolopax testacea Vroeg (ex Pallas, MS.), Catal. d’Ois. Adumb. p. 6, 
Sept. 1704, Holland, Europe. (Fig. Dresser, viii. pi. 553.) 
Tringa ferruginea Brtinnich, Ornith. Borealis, p. 53 (pref. Feb. 20th), 1764 : 
Islandia and Christianson. Not Tringa ferruginous Pentoppidan, Danske 
Atlas, p. 624 (pref. March 31st), 1763, indeterminable (cf. Austral Av. Rec. 
vol. v. p. 53, Feb. 21st, 1923). 
Scalopax subarquata Giildeustiidt, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Petrop. vol. xix. 
p. 471, 1774 : Caspian Sea. 
Erolia variegata Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith, p. 69, April 14th, 1816: 
Africa. 
(For other synonyms, cf. Hartort, Die Vogel Paliiarkt. Fauna, p. 1572, 1920.) 
J)istr. —Europe and Asia. Extra-limital.] 
Erolia testacea chinensis (Gray). 
Tringa ( Pelidna ) chinensis Gray, Zool. Miscell.pt. i. p. 2, Nov. 5th, 
1831: China. (Fig. Gould,‘vi. pi. 32; Math. pi. 1(52.) 
Erolia ferruginea wilsoni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 70, July 21st, 
1917 : South-West Australia. 
Distr .— Winter visitor to Australia and New Zealand (breeding 
in the Northern Hemisphere). 
Genus CALIDRIS Anon. 
Cali dr is (Anon.), Allg. Lit. Zeitung, vol. ii. no. 168, June 8th, 1804, 
col. 542. Type (by tautonymy) : T. calidris L .=Tringa canutus 
Linne. 
Canutus id. ib. Type (by monotypy): “ Knot ” = Tringa canutus Limn?. 
Tringa Gray, List Gen. Birds, April 1840, p. 69. Type (by original designation): 
Tringa canutus L. Not Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 148. 
Calidris canutus (Linne). 
Distr .—Nearly cosmopolitan. 
[Calidris canutus canutus (LimnS). (24-593.) 
Tringa canutus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 149, Jan. 1st, 1758: 
Sweden, Europe. Extra-limital.] (Fig. Dresser, viii. pi. 555.). 
Distr .—Europe and Asia. 
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