Genus LOBIPES, cuvier. 



TRINGA, Linn.— PHALAROPUS, Briss. Vieill Temm. 



Ord. IV. Grallatores ; 3^? Fam. Scolopacictee, Vigors. — Ord. IV. Grallje, 

 Limums. — Ord. VI. Grallatores ; 34 l * Fam. Lobipes, Illiger. — Ord. V. 

 Les Echassiers ; 4 m ? Les Longirostres, Cuvier. — Ord. XIV. Pinnatipe- 

 des, Temminck. 



Char. Gen. — Rostrum rectum, gracile, teretiusculum ; maxilla ad basin depressa,utrin- 

 que sulcata, apice rotundato paulo incrassato deflexo ; mandibula l'ecta ; lingua 

 acuminata, gracilis ; nares in sulco maxillae ante basin sits, lineares, laterales pro- 

 minentes, membrana circumdata?. Alee longse, remige primo longissimo, reliquis 

 gradatim decrescentibus, rachibus latis fortibusque ; tectricibus longissimis ; alula 

 spuria longa, angusta, rigida. Pedes grallatores, vel natatores, tetradactyli, di- 

 gitis longiusculis lobatis ; tibia? nudae, reticulata?, posteriore scutulata? ; tarsi di- 

 gito medio paulo longiores, compressi ; acrotarsia scutulata ; paratarsia scutulis 

 numerosis, triangulis, quadrangulisque obtectis ; calcaneis minute fimbriatis. Di- 

 giti medii bilobi, aut trilobi, interni bilobi, externi anguste quadrilobi ; toma fim- 

 briatum, basi conjunctum, lateribus excisuris in lobos rotundatos ; hallux externe 

 scutulis minutis ovatis obtecta, lobo parvo integro ; ungues phalange breviores, 

 falculares, arcuati, acuti. Cauda mediocris. 



Typus genericus, Tringa hyperborea, Linn. 



JL he genus Phalaropus formerly contained two species, P. platyrhinchus and 

 hyperboreus : these have often been separated, either into genera or sec- 

 tions, and as often again united, as characters of sufficient importance to 

 confirm the views of those persons who described them, were perceived in 

 each. We are far from wishing to increase the number of genera already 

 formed ; but in this instance it is indispensable, the very fact of the old spe- 

 cies having been so often transferred from one genus to another, indicates 

 something in their characters that cannot be reconciled. They have alter- 

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