LIMICOL^. 143 



Order LIMICOL^. — The Shore Birds. 



(Page 2.) 



Families. 



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



much longer than middle toe, with claw.... Recurvirostridae. (I'age 140.) 



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



shorter than middle toe, with claw. 

 I/. Cla'.vs 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. 

 (P. Front of tai*sus covered by a continuous row of transverse scutellae. 

 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 hexagonal or irregular 

 scales, 

 e". Bill shorter than tarsus, not compressed, the anterior portion 

 of culmen more or less distinctly arched. 



CharadriidcB. (Page 172) 

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



culmen not arched Haematopodidae. (Page 181.) 



6'. Claws excessively lengthened, straight, and acute, that of the hind toe 

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



Family PHALAROPODID^.— The Ph.\laropes. (Page 143.) 



Genera. 



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

 loral feathers by a space equal to the depth of tlu' np]H'r mandible at base. 



Crymophilus. (Page 144.) 



fl'. 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.) 



