SCOLOPACID &. 361 
Recurvirostra, Linn. Bill flattened ; flexible, the tip 
narrow, very thin, and curving upwards. Legs very 
long. Anterior toes conspicuously semipalmated. 
The natatorial type. 
R. avosetta. Selby, ii. pl. 20. 
Himantopus, Brisson. Bill very narrow and slender ; 
the base depressed, but the outer half cylindrical and 
slightly inclining upwards. Tarsus excessively long. 
Anterior toes semipalmated ; the inner shortest ; the 
hinder toe wanting. 
H. melanopterus. Pl. Enl. 878. 
Totanus, (fig. 
318.) Bech- 
stein. Bill 
rather strong, 
either straight or inclining upwards ; the sides, at the 
base, much compressed, but cylindrical beyond. An- 
terior toes slightly semipalmate; the lateral toes equal ; 
hinder toe slender, rather longer than usual. 
T. fuscus. Selby, pl. 15. f. 1,2. semipalmatus. N. Z. pl. 67. 
Machetes, Cuvier. Bill straight. Feathers of the neck, 
in the males, much developed. Anterior toes consi- 
derably semipalmated. The rasorial type ? 
M. pugnax. Selby, pl. 25. 
Faleinellus, Cuvier.* Bill more or less arched. The 
hinder toe wanting. (Tem. Man.) 
Srrersinas, Illiger. Turn- 
stone. Bill short, very 
straight, conic, compressed 
_ Its whole length: the gonys — 
bent upwards: the nasal 
groove hardly extending be- 
yond the aperture of the nostrils. Tarsus not longer 
_than the middle toe. Anterior toes cleft to their 
base, and margined; hinder toe moderate. The 
_hatatorial type. 
S. interpres. Selby, pl. 33. f. 1, 2, 3. (fig. 319.) 
* Of this type, if such it be, I know nothing, except from the descriptions 
of Cuvier and Temminck. 
