ORDER GRALLiE. 383 



pipers, with feet semipalmated in front, (Hemipalma, 

 Ch. Bonap.) 



Semipalmated Sandpiper, Tringa Semipalmata, 

 Wils. VII., 63-4. Tringa Brevirostris, Spix. 

 xciii. 



Bill shorter than the head, straight ; wings, black ; 

 middle tail-feathers longest, like Tr. Pusilla and T. 

 Minuta. North America. 



Near the Sandpipers should be placed — 



EURINORHYNCHUS, WilsOtt, 



Distinguished by a depressed bill, and widened at 

 the end almost like that of the spoonbill, and of which 

 the only species known. 



Dwarf Spoonbill, Platalea Pygmcea, L. Eurinor- 

 hynchus Giiseus, Wils. Thun. Acad. Suec. 1816, 

 pi. VI. 



Is one of the most rare birds existing, for but a 

 single individual is known ; grey above, white under- 

 neath J scarcely as large as a sea-lark. 



Phalaropus, Brisson. 



Small birds, whose bill, more flatted than that of 

 the sandpipers, has in other respects the same pro- 

 portions and the same furrows. The toes are edged 

 with very broad membranes, like those of Fulica. 



M. Vieillot has changed this name into Orymo- 

 phylus. 



