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Order LIMICOLiE. — The Shore Birds. 



(Page 2.) 

 Families. 



Tarsus more than twice as long as middle toe, with claw ; naked portion of thigh 



much longer than middle toe, with claw.... Recurvirostridse. (Page 146.) 



Tarsus less than twice as long as middle toe, with claw; naked portion of thigh 



shorter than middle toe, with claw. 

 ¥. Claws normal. 



c*. Toes with distinct, usually scalloped, lateral membranes ; tarsus ex- 

 tremely compressed Phalaropodidae. (Page 143.) 



c". Toes without distinct lateral membranes ; tarsus not unusually com- 

 pressed. 

 d}. Pront of tarsus covered by a continuous row of transverse scutellaj. 

 e^ Bill slender, with blunt and more or less rounded (sometimes 

 expanded) tip, the exposed culmen longer than middle toe 



without claw Scolopacidae. (Page 147.) 



e^ Bill stout, culmen arched toward tip, its exposed portion 

 shorter than middle toe (without claw), or else pointed and 



wedge-shaped at tip Aphrizidae. (Pago 179.) 



d^. Front of tarsus covered with small hexas:onal or irresrular 

 scales. 

 e\ Bill shorter than tarsiis, not compressed, the anterior portion 

 of culmen more or less distinctly arched. 



Charadriidse. (Page 172 ) 

 e^. Bill longer than tarsus, much compressed terminally, the 



culmen not arched Hsematopodidae. (Page 181.) 



1/. Claws excessively lengthened, straight, and acute, that of the hind toe 

 longer than the toe itself. Jacanidae. (Page 183.) 



Family PHALAROPODIDi^.— The Phalaropes. (Page 143.) 



Genera. 



Bill broad, flattened, somewhat widened toward end ; nostrils separated from 

 loral feathers by a space equal to the depth of the upper mandible at base. 



Crymophilus. (Page 144.) 



Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, not perceptibly widened toward end ; nostrils 

 separated from loral feathers by a space equal to much less than the depth 

 of the upper mandible at the base Phalaropus. (Page 144.) 



