SCOLOPACID-T). 171 



Family SCOLOPACIDiE. 



All the members of this family have very elongated bills, and 

 long and slender lea-s. 



Genus TRINGA, Brissou K 

 The skull has no distinct supraorbital grooves, and no median 

 fronta] depression, the protile being nearly straight. The tarso- 

 metatarsus has very short distal trochlea?, is distinct!}' com]>ressed 

 from hack to front, and is of moderate length and slenderness. 

 The phalangeals of the pes are comparatively short and thick. 



Tringa gracilis, Milne-Edwards ^ 

 Approximating in size to the existing T. canutus, but with a 

 shorter humerus, and the tibio-tarsus and tarso-metatarsus rela- 

 tively much longer and more slender. Length of humerus 0,034. 

 Bab. Europe (France and Germany '■'). 



31354. The left humerus ; from the Lower Miocene (Upper Oligo- 



cene) of Allier. Agrees in all respects with the specimen 

 figured by Milne-Edwards in his ' Oiseaux Fossiles de la 

 France,' pi. Ixiv. fig. 17. 



Bravard Collection. Purcliased, 1852. 



31355. An imperfect left humerus provisionally referred to this 



species ; from Allier, Bravard Collection. 



31664. A left tibio-tarsus, without the proximal extremity, belong- 

 ing either to the present or a closely allied form ; from 

 Allier. Appears to be somewhat more slender than the 

 specimen figured by Milne-Edwards, op. cit. pi. liv. 

 figs. 5-6. Bravard Collection. 



31711. A left tarso-metatarsus agreeing in relative size with the 

 preceding specimen ; from AUier. Appears to have been 

 somewhat longer than the imperfect type tarso-metatarsus 

 figured by Milne-Edwards, ojj. cit. pi. Ixiv. figs. 1-3, but 

 is in other respects very similar. Its much more slender 



' Ornithologie, vol. v. p. 177 (1760). 



^ Oiseaux Fossiles de la Frauee, vol. i. p. 411 (1807-68). 



3 W'eissenau, near Mavence. 



