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A lot of Linnaeus' knowledge came from the earlier literature rather than from a personal experience of the birds. It was not that infrequent that he changed his mind about the interpretation of some names, which he had adopted from some earlier authors.Because, if ochropus is the current type species of Tringa, It doesn't say whether Linnaeus originally considered these two names to belong to two different birds. It is difficult to know what Linnaeus was thinking at this time despite the references he cited
In the 10th edition, he cited "Tringa" from Aldrovandus, Willughby and Ray in the synonymy of his Tringa 'ocrophus' -- so it would seem that at least at this point he thought of the two names as applying to the same thing.