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pression, or swelling, and the nasal foss does not 

 pass one half of its length. The thumb scarcely 

 touches the ground. The bill, a little stronger and 

 stifFer in proportion than the preceding, assists 

 these birds in turning up stones to seek for worms 

 underneath. 



There is one species with a mantle varied with 

 black and red, head and belly white, breast-piece 

 and cheeks black, extended through both conti- 

 nents, {Tringa IntevpreSy L. Enl. 856), and one 

 varied with grey and brown, which probably belongs 

 only to another age (Enl. 340, 857, Vieill. Gal. 

 237. 



M. Vieillot has changed the name Strepsilas into 

 Arenaria.* 



See also Edw. 141, Naum. Supp. 62, f. 118, Wils. 

 Am. VII., LVII., 2. The Chevalier Varie, Enl. 

 300, which M. Meyer refers to strepsilas, is a 

 pugnax. 



The Strepsilas Collaris, Tem., and Morinellus Mar- 

 inuSf Ray. The Hebridal Sandpiper, of Pennant ; 

 the Horsefooty or Sea Dotterel, of the English. 



TOTANUS, CuV. 



Have a slender, round, pointed, but firm bill, the 

 fiirrow of the nostrils not passing one half its length, 



" The word arenaria has been used three times as a generic name ; once 

 in Botany by Linnaeus, and twice as a genus of birds, much to the confu- 

 sion of science. 



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