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SUBGENUS CRECISCUS Casanis. This becomes 
GENus CRECISCUS Caranis. 
Type, Rallus 
Creciscus CABANIS, Journ. f. Orn., 1856, 428. 
jamaicensis GMELIN. 
216. Porzana jamaicensis (GMELIN). ‘This becomes 
216. Creciscus jamaicensis (GMELIN). 
No. 216.1 is now recognized as the western representative of the 
above, under the name 
216.1. Creciscus coturniculus (Ripcway). (C7. Brewster, Auk, 
XXIV, 1907, 205-210.) 
GENUS CRYMOPHILUS Viertuor. This becomes 
GENUS PHALAROPUS Brisson. 
Phalaropus Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 12. Type, Tringa 
julicaria LINN&US. 
222. Crymophilus fulicarius (LINN&us). This is changed to 
222. Phalaropus fulicarius (LINN.©Us). 
GENUS PHALAROPUS Brisson, of the Check-List, becomes 
GENUS LOBIPES Cuvier. 
Lobipes Cuvier, Régne Animal, I, 1817, 495. Type, Tringa 
lobata LINN.®US. 
No. 223 thus becomes 
223. Lobipes lobatus (LINN&vs). 
The above changes in the family Phalaropodide are explained 
by Stone (Auk, XXIV, 1907, 196), and ALLEN (Bull. Am. Mus. 
INSEE, SX 1907, 31d). 
