_GRALLATORIA. 391 
ne _ Meyer; Zringa fulicaridy 1, Edw. 142;(1) Crymophile roux, 
Bit Gal... 270. ees bird i is rare in Europe. 
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et w APN " Sraepsmas. (2) 
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1 he ris Mines stare 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 in- 
flation, 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 
throughout both continents, and is the Zringa 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 8575 Noell Gal. 287.(3) 
we, 7 é hs e » © © Toranus, Cuv.(4) 
a The beak of»these bit ds'is slender, round, pointed and solids the 
nasal fosse do not extend beyond the half of its length, and the 
supper mandible 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 fo found throughout almost the whole of the globe. 
\ Scol. glottis, L.; Chevalier aux pieds verts; Albin. I, 693 Al- 
difov. Orn. III, 535; Brit. Zool. pl. c. 1? As large asa Limosa, 
' .' »beak thick and strong, a brown ash colour above and on the 
_ sides; edges of the feathers dotted with brown; white rump and 
a belly; tail marked with narrow and irregular grey and white 
. stripes; the feet green. In summer the neck and breast are 
spotted with brown; in winter the whole under part of the body 
is white. It is the largest of all the European species. Scol. 
fusca, L.3 Cheval noir; Barge brune; Buff. Enl. 8755 Frisch, 
236,(5) has the graceful form of the Godwit, and in summer is 
a blackish brown above and slate-coloured beneath; the feathers. 
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(1) Gmelin has increased the confusion by quoting this bird as a variety of the 
Gipietenel 
(2) Vieillot has changed this name into that of Arenanrra, Gal. pl. 237. . 
(3) See Edw., 141; Naum., Suppl. 62, f. 118; Wils. VI, lvii, 2. The Chevalier 
varié, Enl. 300, referred by Meyer to Strepsilas, is merely a Ruff. 
(4) Totano, the Venetian name of a Limosa or Totanus. 
(3) According to Meyer, the Scol. cwronica and cantabrigiensis, and the T'ringa 
atra, Gm. should be referred to this bird. The two first are the young ones. 
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