102 GRALLATORES. MACRORAMPHUS. Lonepeak. 
mediate one by a membrane as far as the first joint; the 
imner one not so far; hind toe articulated upon the tarsus, 
and resting on its tip only. Plumage close and adpressed. 
This genus, first established by Dr LEacu, upon the cha- 
racters presented by the Scolopax grisea of authors (Brown 
Snipe of Pennant’s Arctic Zoology, Red-breasted Snipe of 
Wiutson’s North American Ornithology), and which, as yet, 
remains the only known species, appears to form a link connect- 
ing more intimately the Godwits with the Snipes and Wood- 
cocks. In it we find the bill approaching closely in form to 
that of the latter, and furnished with a nervous apparatus of 
nearly equal extent, as shewn by the rugosity apparent after 
death ; the tip, however, is proportionally more dilated, and 
the base thicker, as in the Godwits. Its feet differ from those 
of the Scolopaces by the toes being shorter, and by the outer 
toe being joined to the middle one by a membrane, or web, 
extending as far as the first joint, as in the genera Limosa 
and Totanus. Its habits and manners, as described by those 
writers who have had an opportunity of studying them, are 
also essentially different from those of the true Snipes; and 
its plumage, as far as regards colour and periodical change, 
is equally at variance, but in both respects closely assimilated 
to that of the Godwits. With such peculiarities of habits 
and form, I concur with Mr SrepHens in the propriety of 
retaining Dr Lracn’s designation, and separating this bird 
from the genus Scolopax, as now restricted, this being in 
perfect accordance with its affinities, and the intermediate 
station it holds with respect to the Godwits and Snipes. Nor 
do I think it less entitled to a generic distinction than many 
of the genera established by Mons. 'TEmMincx himself, who, 
in the second edition of his valuable ‘“* Manuel d’Ornitholo- 
gie,” has, in strong terms, condemned Dr Leacu for sepa- 
rating it from Scolopar, although, at the same time, he has 
thought it necessary to institute a third sectional division in 
that genus fur the express reception of this bird, as if such 
