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Puataropus*, Briss. 
Small birds, whose bill, though flatter than that of the Sandpipers, is 
similarly proportioned, and has the same grooves; the toes also are bor- 
dered with wide membranes like those of Fulica. The species known, 
Phal. fulicarius, Bonap.; Tinga labata and Tr. fulicaria, L. +, 
has a very large bill for a member of this family. In winter, it is 
ash-coloured above; beneath, and the head, whitish; a black band 
on the neck: it is then the 7'r. lobata, Edw. 308. In summer it 
becomes black, streaked with fawn colour above, and reddish be- 
neath; there is at all times a white band on the wing, which is 
blackish: it is then the Phalaropus rufus, (Red Phalarope), Bechst. 
and Meyer; Tinga fulicaria, L., Edw. 142¢; Crymophile roux, 
Vieill. Gal. 270. This bird is rare in Europe. 
Srrepsixas §, Jilig. 
The Turn-stones stand rather low; the bill is short, and the toes are 
without membranes, like those of the true Sandpipers; but this bill is 
conical, pointed, without any depression, compression, or inflation, and 
the nasal fosse do not extend to more than half its length. The thumb 
barely reaches the ground. Their bill, which is stronger and stiffer in 
proportion than that of the preceding birds, enables them to overturn 
stones, beneath which they find worms. 
The mantle of one species is varied with black and red; head and 
belly white; cheeks and breast, black: it is disseminated through- 
out both continents, and is the Tinga interpres, L., Enl. 856. 
There is also one varied with grey and brown, which is perhaps but 
the same species at a different age—Enl. 340 and 857; Vieill. Gal. 
237 ||. 
Totanus], Cuv. 
The bill of these birds is slender, round, pointed and solid; the nasal 
fosse do not extend beyond the half of its length, and the upper mandibie is 
slightly arcuated near the end. Their form is light and their legs long; 
but a small part of their thumb rests on the ground; their external web 
is well marked. Each of the species is found throughout almost the 
whole of the globe. 
Scol. glottis, L.; Chevalier aux pied verts; Albin. II, 69; Al- 
drov. Orn. III, 535; Brit. Zool. pl. c. 1? As large as a Limosa, 
* Vieillot has changed this name into CRyMOPHILE, Gal., pl. 270. 
+ Meyer improperly confounds this bird, Edw. 308, with the Tringa hyperborea 
and the Tringa fusca, which have the bill of a Totanus, and of which we make our 
LosiPes. 
{ Gmelin has increased the confusion by quoting this bird as a variety of the 
hyperborea. 
§ Vieillot has changed this name into that of ARENARIA, Gal. pl. 237. 
|| See Edw. 141; Naum. Suppl. 62, f. 118; Wils. VII, lvii, 2. The Chevalier 
varié, Enl. 300, referred by Meyer to Strepsilas, is merely a Ruff. 
§ Totano, the Venetian name of a Limosa or Totanus. 
