TOTANUS. TATLER. 327 



Formerly, when the genera Tringa and Totanus were 

 united, the species composing them were designated in 

 English by the generic name Sandpiper. That name being 

 with propriety assigned to Tringa, it becomes necessary to 

 apply another to Totanus ; and I can find none more appli- 

 cable than that of Tatler, employed by Mr. Nuttall. It is 

 true that term is applicable, in a greater or less degree, to 

 other genera; but so is Sandpiper, as well as almost any 

 other expressive of any circumstance relative to their form 

 or habits. 



