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Other species. The feathers of the beak as well as the small 

 wing-coverts, when young, have a light fawn coloured edging. 

 Its habits are the same as those of the preceding. 



Among the species foreign to Europe, we should particularly 

 notice that of North America, with the large beak and semi- 

 palmated feet, Scolopax semipalmaia, L. ; Ency. Method. Pi. 

 Ornith., pi. Ixxi, fig. \', Wils. VII, Ivi, 3, which is nearly as 

 large as the one first named, Avith a shorter and thicker beak, 

 plumage brown-grey above, whitish beneath; brownish spots on 

 the neck and breast; toes well bordered with equal and consi- 

 derable membranes.(l) The 



LoBiPES, Cuv.(2) 

 We think requires to be separated from Phalaropus, because al- 

 though the feet are similar, the bill is that of a Totanus; such is 



Tringa hyperborea, L. ; Lobipede a hausse-col; Enl. 766, of 

 which the Tringa fusca, Edw. 46, is probably the female or the 

 young. This little bird, which is grey above, white beneath, 

 and has its scapulars tinged with red, has a broad red gorget 

 round its white throat.(3) 



HiMANTOpus,(4) Briss. 

 The bill round, slender and pointed, even more so than that of a 



(1) It is on this character that M. Ch. Bonaparte founds his subgenus Catop- 

 TROPHORus. Add to the common species, Tot. speculiferus, which resembles the 

 semipalmatus, but stands higher, and has a longer beak, with the usual feet; 

 Tot. vociferus, Wils. VII, Iviii, 5, or Tot. mclanoleucos, Ord, lb.; Tot. Jlavipes, 

 Wils., LVIII, 4;~Tot. solltariiis {Tot. glarcolus, Wils.), Wils., VII, Iviii, 3. [See 

 Jlpp.XXIVoj Jim. Ed.'\ The Tot. Bartramius, Wils., VII, llx, 2, has a propor- 

 tionally shorter beak than the other species, although in every thing else its 

 characters are the same. 



N.B. This genus, mixed up by Buffon with several varieties of IluflTs, lias been 

 distributed by Linnseus, without any reason, among his tvi^o genera Scolopax and 

 Tringa. This confusion is not yet dissipated, as I had no opportunity of observ- 

 ing all the foreign species. It is easy to see, however, that I could not retain the 

 genus Atites of Illiger. 



I should also observe, that the most exact descriptions will not suffice for dis- 

 tinguishing the species with certainty, until those of my Totastus are separated 

 from my Sandpipers and Godwits, according to the forms of the beak, as above 

 mentioned. It is this which has prevented me from giving all the synonymes of 

 Bechstein and Meyer. 



(2) M. Vieillot, to have the air of producing a change, retains here the name of 

 Phalaropus. 



(3) Add the Phal. frenaius, Vieill. Gal. pi. 271, or Phal. liserd, T. Col. 270; 

 Wils., IX, pi. Ixiii, f. 3? It is the subgenus Holopodius of Ch. Bonap. 



(4) Hlmantopus, feet hke a string, (alluding to their weakness) is the name 

 given to this bird in Pliny. 



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