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none of them have been figured ; and consult the 

 genus Ereunetes of lUiger, containing T. Petrifi- 

 catus.* 



LoBiPEs, Cuv. 



Which we think we ought to separate from Phalaro- 

 pus ; for notwithstanding the similarity of the feet, 

 the first are distinguished by the bill, which is that 

 of totanus. 



M. Vieillot, from an affectation of changing, has 

 left to this genus the name Phalaropus. 



Hyperborean Phalarope. Tringa Hyperborean L. 

 Enl. 766, of which Tringa Fusca, Edw. 46, is 

 probably the female or the young. 



This little bird is grey above, white underneath, 

 tinted with red on the scapulars, and round its white 

 throat is a broad red gorget. 



The Red Phalarope, Pennant, and the Coot-footed 

 Tringa, Edwards ; the Phalaropus Welleamsii, Ha- 



• N.B. This genus totanus, mixed by BufFon with many varieties of 

 pugnax, has been dispersed by Linnaeus through his genera Scolopax and 

 Tringa, without any motive. Buffon has placed two species of it among 

 the godwits. This confusion is not yet entirely cleared up, because I have 

 not been able to observe all the foreign species. It is easy, however, after 

 the determinations I have given, to see the propriety of my discarding the 

 genus Atites of lUiger. 



We may also remark, that the most exact descriptions will not serve 

 to distinguish the species as long as totanus is not separated from limosa 

 and calidris, according to the conformation of bill indicated above. This 

 has prevented me from giving completely the synoniniy of Bechstein and 

 Meyer.— Cuv. 



