384 CLASS AVES. 



The species known — 



Tringa Lobattty and Tr. Fulicaria, L. Phalar. Fu- 

 licariuSy Ch. Bonap. 



Has the bill very broad for this family. It is in 

 winter ashen above, and whitish underneath and on 

 the head. There is a black band on the nape. It 

 is then Tr. Lohata, Edw. 308. In summer it be- 

 comes black, mellowed with fawn colour above, and 

 reddish below. There is at all times a band on 

 the wing, which is blackish. It is then Phalaro- 

 pus RnfuSt Bechst. and Meyer. Tringa Fulicaria, 

 Lin. Edw. 142, Crymophilus Rufus, Vieill. Gal. 270. 

 This bird is rare in Europe. 



M. Meyer erroneously confounds this bird, Edw. 

 308, with Tringa Hyperborea and Tringa Fuscay 

 which have the bill of totanus, and of which we form 

 the lobipes. 



Gmelin has made another confusion in citing this 

 bird as a variety under Hyperborea. 



It is the Ph. Platyrhynchus, Temm. Ph. Hyperboreus 

 Moss, Lath., and in moulting, the Ph. Glacialisy 

 Gmel. It is also said to be the Grey^ the Red, and 

 the Plain Phalar ope of Latham. See Wilson 

 A. O. ix. t. 73, f. 4. 



Strepsilas, 



Have the legs a little lower, the bill short, and the 

 toes not palmate like the true sandpipers, but the 

 bill is conical, pointed, without depression, com- 



