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SCOLOPACID^.. 



the tail, the quills, and the upper wing-coverts on 

 the outside are dusky, those of the middle grey: the 

 irides are orange : the beak black, tinged with violet- 

 green at the base, and varies in length : the legs are 

 reddish. 



FAMILY in.— SCOLOPACIDiE. 



Rostrum elongatum, gracUe, debile: alee mediocres aut suhelon- 

 gati: pedes mediocres, tetradactyli; digiti anticijissi aut mem- 

 branuld connea:i, posticus debilis, elevatus. 



Beak elongated ; slender, weak : tmngs moderate, or a little 

 elongated : legs moderate : toes four ; the anterior cleft or 

 united by a small basal membrane, the hinder one weak, 

 elevated. 



The birds of this family greatly resemble each 

 other as well in form and habit as in the distribution 

 of their colours : they feed on worms, insects, small 

 mollusca and animalcula ; and they reside in marshy 

 places. 



GENUS CCCXXXVIIL— NUMENIUS, Ray. CURLEW. 

 Generic character : vide Steph. v. xii. 1.^. 25. 



GENUS CCCXXXIX.— LIMICULA, Linne. 

 GREEN-SHANK. 



AcTiTis (pars) Illiger. — Totanus (pars) Beckstein. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v. xii. 1 . p. 85. 



GENUS CCCXL.— TOTANUS, Beckstein. SANDPIPER. 

 Generic character: vide Steph. v. xii. 1. p. 124. 



GENUS CCCXLI.—RECURVIROSTRA, Linne. AVOCET. 

 AvocETTA, Brisson. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v, xii. I. p. 172. 



