Seedsnipes

Family: THINOCORIDAE (Sundevall 1835)

Genera: Two genera recognised; Attagis and Thinocorus.

Attagis – Greek; attagis (attagis or attagen frankolin) (Saint-Hilaire, I. and Lesson 1831).
Thinocorus – Greek: this, thinos sand, beach desert; Modern Latin: corys lark (korudos lark) (Eschscholtz 1829).

Distribution

• South America: Rufous-bellied, White-bellied, Grey-breasted and Least Seedsnipe.

Current Taxonomy:

• Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis gayi (Saint-Hilaire, I. and Lesson  1831)
• ∗ A. g. gayi (Saint-Hilaire, I. and Lesson 1831)
• ∗ A. g. latreillii (Lesson 1831)
• ∗ A. g. simonsi (Chubb 1918)
• White-bellied Seedsnipe A. malouinus (Boddaert 1783)
• Grey-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus (Saint-Hilaire, I. and Lesson 1831)
• ∗ T. o. orbignyianus (Saint-Hilaire, I. and Lesson 1831)
• ∗ T. o. ingae (Tschudi 1843)
• Least Seedsnipe T. rumicivorus (Eschscholtz 1829)
• ∗ T. r. rumicivorus (Eschscholtz 1829)
• ∗ T. r. cuneicauda (Peale 1848)
• ∗ T. r. bolivianus (Lowe 1921)

Bibliography

• BirdLife International: IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/03/2020
• del Hoyo, Josep, Andrew Elliot & Jordi Sargatal: Handbook of the Birds of the World – Vol. 3 (1996)
• Hayman, Peter, John Marchant & Tony Prater: Shorebirds – An identification guide to the waders of the world (1986)
• Jobling, James A.: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names (2010)
• Seebohm, Henry: The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or, The Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and Their Allies (1888)

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