12 BROWN PIIALAROPE. 



reference to the tenth edition of the Systema Naturae* will show that 

 the authority for Tringa fulicaria is Edwards's Red Coot-footed 

 Tringa, pi. 142, and that alone, for it does not appear that Linnaeus 

 had seen the bird. The circumstance of the change of the generic ap- 

 pellation can in nowise affect the specific name ; the present improved 

 state of the science requires the former, justice demands that the latter 

 should be preserved. In this work I have preserved it ; and I flatter 

 myself that this humble attempt to vindicate the rights of Linnaeus 

 will be approved by all those who love those sciences, of which he was 

 so illustrious a promoter. f 



Species II. PHALAROPVS LOBATUS. 



BROWN PHALAROPE.J 



[Plate LXXIII. Fig. 3.] 



Tringa lobaia, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, torn, i., p. 148, 5. T. hyperhorea, Id. ed. 12, torn. 

 I., p. 249, 9. — Tringa lohata, Gmel. Syst. i., p. 674, 6. T. fuaca, Id. p. 675, 33. 

 T. hyperhorea, Id. No. 9. — Phalaropus cinerevs, Briss. Orn. vi., p. 15. P. fus- 

 cus, Id. p. 18. — Le Phalarope cendre. Buff. Ois. viii., p. 224. PL Enl. 766. — 

 Coot-footed Tringa, Edwards, pi. 46. Cock Coot-footed Tringa, Id pi. 143. — lied 

 Phalarope, Penn. Biit. Zool. No. 219. Brown Phalarope, Arct. Zool. No. 414. — 

 Phalaropus hyperhoreus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 775, 1. P. fnscvs, Id. p. 776, 4. 

 Red Phalarope, Gen. Syn. m., p. 270, 1. Id. p. 272, var. A. Brown Phalarope, 

 Id. p. 274, 4. — Red Phalarope, Montagu, Orn. Die. Id. Sup. and Appendix. — 

 Phalaropus hyperhoreus, Temm. Man. d' Orn. p. 709. — Le Lobipede a hausse-col, 

 Cuv. Reg. An. 1, p. 495. 



Of this species only one specimen was ever seen by Wilson, and that 

 was preserved in Trowbridge's Museum, at Albany, in the state of New 

 York. On referring to Wilson's Journal, I found an account of the 

 bird, there called a Tringa, written with a lead pencil, but so scrawled 

 and obscured, that parts of the writing were not legible. I wrote to 

 Trowbridge, soliciting a particular description, but no answer was 



* Of all the editions of the Systema Naturae, the tenth and the twelfth are the 

 most valuable; the former being the first which contains the synonyma, and the 

 latter beino; that which received the finishing hand of its author. In the United 

 States, Linna3U8 is principally known through tvro editors : — Ginelin, vv^hose thir- 

 teenth edition of the Systema Naturas has involved the whole science in almost in- 

 extricable confusion, and Turton, virhose English translation of Gmelin is a dis- 

 grace to science and letters. All vv-riters on Zoology and Botany should possess 

 Linnaeu.s'8 tenth and twelfth editions; they will be found to be of indisjensable 

 use in tracing synonymes, and fixing nomenclature. 



t From Mr. Ord's supplementary volume. 



t Named in the plate Gray Phalarope. 



