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being about as large as a Pelidna (Tr. alpina, Gm.); a bronzed 

 greeiiisli-brown, with transverse, lawn coloured and black marks on 

 the wings; beneath and in front, white; rump, and the middle quills 

 of the tail, colour of the back, the lateral ones only being striped 

 with black and white as in the other species. The feathers of the 

 bill as well as the small wing-coverts, when young, have a light 

 fawn coloured edging. Its habits are the same as those of .the pre- 

 ceding. 



Among the species foreign to Europe, we should particularly no- 

 tice that of North America, with the large bill and semi-palmated 

 feet, Scolopax scmipahnata, L. ; Ency. Method. PI. Ornith., pi. 

 Ixxi, fig. 1; Wils. VII, Ivi, 3, which is nearly as large as the one 

 first named, with a shorter and thicker bill, plumage brown-grey 

 above, whitish beneath; brownish spots on the neck and breast; 

 toes well bordered with equal and considerable membranes *. The 



LoBiPEsf, Cuv. 



The Lobipedes, we think, require to be separated from the Phalaropes, 

 because, although the feet are similar, the bill is that of a Tetanus; 

 such is, 



Tringa hyperhorea, L. ; Lobipede a hausse-col; Enl. ^QQ, of 

 which the Tringa fusea, Edw. 40, is probably the female or the 

 young. This little bird, which is grey above, white beneath, and 

 has its scapulars tinged with red, has a broad red gorget rouud its 

 Avhite throat J. 



HiMANTOPUS 11, Briss. 



The bill round, slender, and pointed, even more so than that of a Te- 

 tanus, and the usual nasal grooves occupy but half its length. The exces- 

 sive length and tenuity of the legs, which are reticulated and destitute of a 

 thumb, and the weakness of their bones, which is so extreme as to ren- 



" It is on this character that M. Ch. Bonaparte founds his subgenus Catoptro- 

 PHORUS. Add to the common species, Tot. speculifenis, which resembles the vevil- 

 ■palmiilus, but stands higher, and has a longer bill, with the usual feet; — Tot. vo'ife- 

 rus, Wils. VII, Iviii, 5, or Tot. mclonoleiicos, Ord. ]h.;—Tot. flavipes, Wils. LVIII, 

 4; — Tot. soUtmius {Tot. glareolus, Wils.), Wils. VII, Iviii, 3. llie Tot. Bartramius, 

 Wils. VII, lix, 2, has a proportionally shorter bill than the other species, although 

 in everything else its characters are the same. N.B. This genus, mixed up by 

 Buifon, with several varieties of RufFs, has been distributed by Linna-us, witliout 

 any reason, among his two genera Scolopax and Tringa. This confusion is not vet 

 dissipated, as I had no opportunity of observing all the foreign species. It is easy 

 to see, however, that I could not retain the genus Atites of Illiger. I should also 

 observe, that the most exact descriptions will not suffice for distinguishing the spe- 

 cies with certainty, until those of my Totanus are separated from my Sandpipers 

 and Godwits, according to the forms of the bill, as above mentioned. It is this 

 which has prevented me from giving all the synonymes of Bechstein and Meyer. 



f M. Vieillot, to have the air of producing a change, retains here the name of 

 Phalaropus. 



X Add, the Phal. frenatus, Vieill. Gal. pi. 271, ot Phal. lisere, T. Col. 270; Wils, 

 IX, pi. l.xiii, f. 3? It is the subgenus Holopodius of Ch. Bonap. 



§ llimaiitoptis, feet like a string (alluding to their weakness), is the name given to 

 this bird in Pliny. 



