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other species. The feathers of the beak as well as the small 
wing-coverts, when young, have a light fawn coloured edging. 
Its habits are the same as those of the preceding. 
Among the species foreign to Europe, we should particularly 
notice that of North America, with the large beak and semi- 
palmated feet, Scolopax semipalmata, L.; Ency. Method. Pl. 
Ornith., pl. lxxi, fig. 1; Wils. VII, lvi, 3, which is nearly as 
large as the one first named, with .a shorter and thicker beak, 
plumage brown-grey above, whitish beneath; brownish spots on 
the neck and breast; toes well bordered with equal and consi- 
derable membranes.(1) The 
Losrrgs, Cuy.(2) 
We think requires to be separated from Phalaropus, because al- 
though the feet are similar, the bill is that of a Totanus; such is 
Tringa hyperborea, L.; Lobipede a hausse-col; Enl. 766, of 
which the 7ringa fusca, Edw. 46, 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 
round its white throat.(3) 
Himanropvus,(4) Briss. 
The bill round, slender and pointed, even more so than that of a 
(1) It is on this character that M. Ch. Bonaparte founds his subgenus Caror- 
Tropnorus. Addto the common species, Tot. speculiferus, which resembles the 
semipalmatus, but stands higher, and has a longer beak, with the usual feet;— 
Tot. vociferus, Wils. VII, lviii, 5, or Tot. melanoleucos, Ord, Ib.;—Tot. flavipes, 
Wils., LVI, 4;—Tot. solitarius (Tot. glareolus, Wils.), Wils., VII, lviii, 3. [See 
App. XXIV of Am. Ed.) The T'ot. Bartramius, Wils., VU, lix, 2, has a propor- 
tionally shorter beak than the other species, although in every thing else its 
characters are the same. 
N.B. This genus, mixed up by Buffon with several varieties of Ruffs, has been 
distributed by Linnzus, without any reason, among his two genera Scolopax and 
Tinga. This confusion is not yet dissipated, as I had no opportunity of observ- 
ing all the foreign species. Itis easy to see, however, that I could not retain the 
genus Arires of Illiger. ’ 
I should also observe, that the most»exact descriptions will not suffice for dis- 
© tinguishing the species with certainty, until those of my Toranus are separated 
_” from my Sandpipers and Godwits, according to the forms of the beak, as above 
“mentioned. Itis this which has prevented me from giving all the synonymes of 
Bechstein and Meyer. 
e's» (2)! M. Vieillot, to have the air of producing a change, retains here the name of 
Phalaropus. 
(3) Add the Phal. frenatus, Vieill. Gal. pl. 271, or Phal. liseré, T. Col. 270; 
Wils., IX, pl. lxiii, f. 3? Itis the subgenus Hotoronrus of Ch. Bonap. 
(4). Himantopus, feet like a string, (alluding to their weakness) is the name 
given to this bird in Pliny. 
Vou. I.—2 Z 
