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Show 456 SCLATER AND SALVIN ON AMERICAN LIMICOLcE. [May 6, Buenos Ayres (Hudson), and the Falklands (Lecomte). As already suggested (P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144), we think the name fuscicollis of Vieillot ought to be used for this species, it being, in our opinion, manifestly the bird called by Azara "Chorlito pestorejo pardo." 4. TRINGA MINUTILLA (Vieill.). Of the specimens of this species in Salvin and Godman's collection, a list has recently been published in Sharpe and Dresser's * Birds of Europe ' (pts. xi. & xii.). It extends throughout Central and Southern America, at least as far south as South Brazil. These four are the only true Tringce of which we have seen specimens from any part of the Neotropical region. Cabanis (in Schomburgk's ** Guiana'), Pr. Max, and Burmeister all include the Knot (Tringa canutus) as occurring on the eastern coast of South America; but we have never met with examples of this bird from any locality so far south. 4. LIMOSA. The only Godwit in South America is L. hudsonica, which descends down to the Magellan Straits and Falklands *. Limosa australis, G. R. Gray (Mus. Brit. Cat. of Gall. &c. 1844, p. 95), is founded on a specimen of this species in winter plumage. Limosa fedoa (the second North-American species) also occurs in Guatemala*f and on the coast of Honduras']:; but we are not aware that it goes further south. 5. NUMENIUS. W e have as yet met with only two species, of Curlew in South America, both referable to northern species, namely Numenius hud-sonicus and N. borealis. N. hudsonicus extends all over Central and Southern America. Our specimens are from Guatemala, Amazonia, and Chili. It is called N. phceopus by Cabanis (Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 757) and v. Pelzeln (Orn. Bras. p. 308), and N. brasiliensis by Pr. Max. and Burmeister. N. borealis (as Prof. Schlegel has already shown, Mus. d. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 101) also extends into Southern Brazil, where it is the N. brevirostris of Lichtenstein, Temminck, and v. Pelzeln. The same species has recently been obtained in Southern Peru and Chili, and is well described by Philippi and Landbeck (Wiegm. Arch. 1866, p. 129) as A. microrhynchus. The third Curlew of North America (N. longirostris), so far as we know, only extends as far south as Guatemala. Of the Neotropical Limicolae generally it may be said that Gal- * Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 387. t Salvin, Ibis, 1865, p. 190. X Leyland, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 64. |