AVES. 401 



Phalaropus Briss. Bill moderate or slightly longer than head, 

 soft, straight, with tip inflected. Tarsi moderate, covered in front 

 with scutella; feet tetradactylous, with anterior toes connected at 

 the base by membrane, winged or lobate. Wings pointed, with 

 first and second quills subequal, longest of all. 



a) With hill slender, subulate. Subgen. Lohipcs Cuv. 



Sp. Phalaropus Wilsonii Sabine, Phalarojms finibriatus Tkmm. PI. col. 370, 

 Fauna horeali- Americana, Birds, PI. 69, p. 405. In this species, which 

 occurs in North and South America, the toes have only a narrow border ; 

 the legs are longer and more slender than in the other species ;— Phalaropus 

 cinereus Briss., Tringa hyperborea L. (and lohata ejusd.), Phalaropus an- 

 gustirostris Naum., Buff. PI. enl. 766, Sturm Deutschl. Fauna, Vor/el, 

 Heft 2, Naum. Taf. 205 ; Lapland, Iceland, Greenland, the Orkney Islands ; 

 the male broods as well as the female, and is said to have exclusively a 

 brooding spot on each side of the belly, a part denuded of feathers. This 

 small species has, as also the following, a lobed membrane along the toes, 

 like Fulica. 



b) TI7^/(, Mil broad, depressed. 



Sp. Phalaropus fulicariusBoNAP. , Phalai-ojms platyrhynchusTEMil., Tringa 

 fulicaria L., Less. Ornith. PI. 107, fig. i, Naum. Taf. 206, Cuv. R. Ani., 

 ed. ill., Ois. PI. 81, fig. 2; this species resides, like the preceding, in the 

 high north of both hemispheres, and descends only seldom towards tem- 

 perate regions ; has however been repeatedly shot both on the Dutch and 

 English coasts. It is larger than the preceding, about the size of Tringa 

 cinclus. 



RTiy^ichcea Cuv. Bill elongate, sub-arched. Lateral groove 

 extending to the tip of upper mandible. Nostrils pervious, 

 basal. Feet moderate, with tarsi scutellate in front, toes cloven, 

 hallux raised, resting only by the tip. Wings moderate, ample, 

 with first three quills longer, subequal, second longest of all. 



Sp. Kkyncheea varicgafa Vieill., Fhynchcea variabilis (Cuv. 1) Temm., Scolo- 

 pax capensis L. and Rallus bengalensis ejusd., Buff. PI. enl. 922 adult, 

 270, 881 (younger). Less. Ornith. PI. ro2, fig. i ; Africa, India (Sumatra, 

 Java), Japan. — In South America, Brasil, Peru, a smaller species occurs : 

 Rhynchwa semicollaris (Totanus semicoUaris ViEiLL. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 nat.}, Rhynchoea Hilairea Valenc, Lesson Illustr. de Zool. PI. 18, Gder. 

 Iconogr., Ois. PI. 55, fig. 2. 



Numenius Moehe., Briss. (in part), Cuv. Bill long, slender, 

 curved, with tip of upper mandible hard, obtuse, produced beyond 

 the tip of lower. Nostrils basal, lateral, linear, pervious, placed in 

 groove obliterated towards the tip of bill. Face plumed. Feet 

 slender, elongate ; tarsi covered anteriorly with transverse scutella, 

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