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In the fourth family, Charadriidae, will be found assembled 

 the great mass of the Limieolse, as it embraces all the forms 

 usually referred to the Scolopacidse as well as the Plovers. 

 It is divided into ten subfamilies, and contains altogether 79 

 genera and 190 species. The characters employed in the 

 diagnoses of these subfamilies are mostly taken from the toes 

 and the scaling of the tarsi. A new genus {Peltohyas) and a 

 new subfamily (Peltohyatiuae) are formed for Gould's Eudro- 

 mias australis, apparently because of the different scaling of 

 the tarsus. 



The Sheath-bills, ChionididiE, constitute Dr. Sharpens 

 fifth family of Limicolae. He recognizes 2 genera and 3 

 species of these abnormal Sea-Plovers. 



Finally, the Thinocorythidse, with 2 genera and 5 species, 

 close the list of Limicolse. If the name of the family be 

 thus orthographically emended, the generic name Thinocorus 

 should be written " Thinocorys " {dU, littus, and Kopv^;, 

 alauda). 



The following new generic terms are proposed in the 

 present volume : — 



Hydrophasis (p. 69), emended from Hydrophasianus. 



Phyllopezus (p. 7Q), type Parr a africana. 



Asarcia (p. 83), type P. variabilis, Linn. (i. e. P. gymno- 

 stoma, Wagl.). 



Microsarcops (p. 133), type Pluvianus cinerea, Blyth. 



Zonifer (p. 154), type Charadrius tricolor, Vieill. 



Anomalophrys (p. 156), type Lobivanellus super ciliosus, 

 Reichenb. 



Eurypterus (p. 171), altered to Euhyas, p. 736, type 

 Charadrius leucurus, Licht. 



Peltohyas (p. 307), type Eudromias australis, Gould. 



Mesoscolopax (p. 371), type Numenius minutus, Gould. 



So far as we can see, only one new species is characterized 

 for the first time. This is Hmnatopus durnfordi (p. 118) 

 from Patagonia. 



Excellent coloured figures, drawn by Keulemans, of the 

 following species are given : — Rhinoptilus bisignatus, R. 



