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mously consecrated to this species. By adopting the prior 
name of lobata, we should have been compelled to quote our 
own authority, and say Ph. lobatus, Nos., since Ph. lobatus, 
Lara, is the Ph. fulicarius, and Ph. lobatus, Orv, the Ph. 
Wilson. 
LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. (Tringa himantopus.) 
PLATE XXV.—FiG. 3. 
Tringa himantopus, Wob. in Ann. Lyc. New York, ii. p. 157 ; Id. Cat. and Syn. 
Birds U.S. sp. 245; Id. Specch. Comp. sp. Philad.—My Collection. 
THe figure of this remarkable bird cannot fail to create a 
sensation among naturalists, and a careful examination may 
induce them to attach more importance to our subgenus Hemi- 
palama than Baron Cuvier has done, and to admit that it is 
quite as distinct as his Machetes. ‘hat this has not already 
been done is no doubt because the real type, which is this 
species, was so little known. The Zringa semipalmata of 
Wilson, which we have united with it merely on account of 
its semipalmated toe, has no real affinity with it, but is similar 
to the other sandpipers, and we should never have thought of 
instituting a separate group for it alone, more than for the 
Charadrius semipalmatus. 
The long-legged sandpiper is, in fact, one of those beings 
that, although intimately connected with several groups with 
which they have many things in common, yet possess pecu- 
liarities sufficient to insulate them completely from all that 
surround them. It is very remarkable for its anomalous 
characters. Though decidedly a Tringa, it connects, still 
more evidently than the other species with long subarched 
bills that have been placed in Numenius by German authors, 
this latter genus with its own, since to the other common 
traits of resemblance it unites the semipalmated toes ; so that, 
in fact, instead of placing it at the head of the Tringe, it should 
rather be arranged last of the Numendi, were this not forbidden 
