FAMILY XXII. 



PINNATIPEDES, BRISSO.V. 



GENUS LVIL PIIALAXOPUS, Bftissox. 



SUIV.ENUS i. PHALABOPUS, CUVIER. 

 241. PUALAROPUS FVLICARXIS, BONAPARTE. PUALABOPUX 



UrPERBOBEffS, W1LSOK BBOWN PHALAROPE.* 



WILSOX, PLATE LXXIII. FIG. III. 



OF this species only one specimen was ever seen by 

 Wilson, and that was preserved in Trowbridge's Museum, 

 at Albany, in the State of New York. Ou referring to 

 Wilson's Journal, I found an account of the bird, there 

 called a tringa, written with a lead pencil, but so 

 scrawled and obscured that parts of the writing were 

 not legible. I wrote to Mr Trowbridge, soliciting a 

 particular description ; but no answer was returned. 

 However, having had the good fortune, since publishing 

 the first edition, of examining a fine recent specimen 

 of this rare bird, I hope I shall be enabled to fix the 

 species by such characters as will prevent any ornitho- 

 logist in future from confounding it with the species 

 which follows, two birds, which, owing to a want of 

 precision, were involved in almost inextricable confu- 

 sion, until Temminck applied himself to the task of 

 disembroiling them ; and this ingenious naturalist has 

 fully proved that the seven species of authors consti- 

 tuted, in effect, only two species. 



Temminck's distinctive characters are drawn from 

 the bill ; and he has divided the gonus into two 

 sections, an arrangement of which, the utility is not 

 evident, seeing that each section contains but one 

 species, unless we may consider the barred phalarope of 



* Named in the plate, Gray Phalarope. The description of the 

 bird 13 written by Mr Ord. 



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