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their beak and their semi-palmated external toes, furnish a mark 
which may assist us to recognize them. This bird, common 
to the whole north of fs oF also found on the coast of 
France, particularly in o tg spring, but it does not build 
there.(1) VS ey une 
There are some small birds in Anite resembling the Sand- 
pipers, whose feet are semi-palmated nteriorly;, (the Hemrpa- 
LtaMA, Bonap.) Tinga semi Palinatay Wils. pe VII, Ixiii,» 45 
Tringa brevirostris, Spix, xoili. im «2 y 
It appears that it is near the spilt, we en place the 
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-EURINORHYNCHUS, Wilson Lee § 
Which is distinguished from them by ith ‘depressed bill, malttoe 
at the end almost like that of the Spoonbill, ‘the any known species 
of which, ' fp Opi’ 
Platalea pygmea, L.; ; Eurinorhynchus griseus, Wils., Thunb., 
Acad., Suec., pl. VI, is one of the rarest i in existence, fo only 
a single individual has been found: it is grey y above, white be- 
neath, and hardly as large as a Pelidna. 2 Sik be a 
PHALAROPUS, Brits. (By. 
Small birds, whose bill, though flatter than that of the Sandpi pers J 
is similarly proportioned, and has the same they es: f 
are bordered with wide membranes like hoge of ek be oe 
cies known, é 
Phal. fulicarius, Bonap.; Tringa lobati ahd Tr. futcatin 3 (3) on 
has a very large beak for a member of this family.’ In winter } 
it is ash-coloured above; beneath, and’ the head, w hitish} "}.! 
black band on the neck: it is then the 77. lobata, ae 308. In 
summer it becomes black, streaked with fawn coléife above, arte = 
reddish beneath: there is at all times a white band on the wing nt 
which is blackish: it is then the Phalaropus rufus, Bechst. and 
%%, Ve 4 
Sp. I; Briss. V, pl. xvii, fig. 1, quoted by Gmel. under Scol. calidris; the true 
Maubéche, Briss. V, pl. xx, fig. 1 (T'ringa calidris, Gm.): the bird of Frisch, pl.. 
238, are all ruffs in different states of plumage, many other varieties of which 
might still be represented. 
According to Meyer, the T’ringa grenovicensis, Lath. is also a young Ruff. 
(1) A true Ruff was shot on Long Island a few weeks ago (May 1830). It is 
the only one ever found inthis country. Am. Ed. bh 
(2) Vieillot has changed this name into Crymorutre, Gal., pl. 270. Y, 
(3) Meyer improperly confounds this bird, Ed:v. 308, with the T'ringa hyper- 
borea and the T'ringa fusca, which have the beak of a Totanus, and of which we 
make our Lowires. / ade ahs 
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