318 GLOTTIS. LONGSHANK. 



the other to be dealt with according to caprice. If at one 

 time there is a genus named Scolopax in Latin and Snipe in 

 English, and at another time the species of that genus be 

 formed into several genera, as Scolopax, Totanus, Limosa, 

 these new genera surely ought not to be called Snipe, Snipe, 

 Snipe. If at one time some species of the genus Tringa are 

 called Sandpipers, while some of another genus, Totanus, 

 are also called Sandpipers, being considered to be Tringas, 

 surely when Totanus and Tringa come to be well denned, 

 the species of the one should have a different English name 

 from those of the other. It is an established rule that every 

 genus must have a name. I say every genus must have in 

 every country two names, a Latin name and a vernacular 

 name. Is it possible to adduce a reason to the contrary :' 

 Well, then, Totanus of old used to be called in English 

 Greenshank, Redshank, Yellowshank, Sandpiper, Plover, 

 Tatler, Willet, Weet-weet, Snipe, &c. But my Totanus I 

 call simply Tatler ; my Glottis, Longshank ; and my Actitis, 

 Weet-weet. Let who will name them to his mind. 



