LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CXVII. Genus ACTITIS. 
Actitis Tlliger, Prodr. Mamm. and Av., p. 263, (pref. April) 1811. Typo (by subsequent designation, Arner. O.U. 
Comm. Check-List N. Am. Birds, p. 158, 1886): Tringa hypoleucos Linn6. 
Tringoides Bonaparte, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, Vol. II., p. 326, “ 1828 " [November, 1827.] Type 
(by subsequent designation, Kichmond (3), p.627, Aug. 16th = 25th, 1917): Tringa macularia " Wils.” 
Ouinetta Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed., p. 68, April 1840 : Type (by original designation): Tringa hypoleucos 
Linn<$. 
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 Linn6, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 149, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Swoden. 
Trynga ralloides Vroeg, Catal. d’Ois. Adumb., p. 47, Sept. 1764: Holland. 
Tringa aurita Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. uxvi., 1801, after May : Now South Wales. 
Totanus guimtta Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 24, Dec. 1817. New name for Triivja hypoleucos Linn6. 
TryiU/a Icucoptcra Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso - As i at., Vol. II., p. 196, 1827 : Siberia. 
Actitis cindus Brehm, Naturg. Vogel Deutschl., p. 648, (pref. July) 1831 : Germany. 
Actitis stagnatilis Brehm, ib. y p. 649 : Germany. 
Actitis empusa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soo. (Lend.), 1847, p. 222, March 29th, 1848 : Port Essington, Northern 
Territory, 
.4c/i7is mcgarhynchos 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. 
CXVm. 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 Kaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Nat. Syst., p. 115. pref. April, 1829. Type (by monotypy): Scolopax cinerea 
Gueldonstadt. 
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. cinerca 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 Omith., Vol. II., p. 724, before Dec. 9th, 1790. New name for preceding. 
Totanus javanicus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIH., pt. I., p. 193, 1821 : Java. 
Scolopax aumatrana Raffles, ib. t 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. 
Limoaa recurmrostra Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 181, 1827. New name for S. cinerea Gueldenstadt. 
Limicola Indiana Lesson, Traits d’Om., 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. Rec., 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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