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SCOLOPACU)^. 



Pedes grallani, loiigiusculi, 

 debiliores, tetradactyli, bi- 

 colligati, palma interna 

 dimidio breviore: hallux 

 phalangem digitorum 

 sequans, tenues, insistens : 

 ungues falculares: tarsus 

 digito medio paulo Ion- 

 gior. 



Acropodia scutellata. 



Legs for wading, rather long, 

 weak, four-toed, doubly 

 strangulated, the inner 

 palm half as short as the 

 other : the hinder toe equal 

 to a joint of the toes, 

 thinner, resting : claws fal- 

 cate : tarsi rather longer 

 than the middle toe. 



Acropodia scutellated. 



Er. petrificatus. Illiger. 



Er. minor actite (Totano) hypoleuco coloribus similibus. 

 Small Ereumetes with its colours similar to those of Totanus 

 hypoleucos. 



Inhabits Bahia. 



GENUS CCCXLIV.—MACRORHAMPHUS, Leach. 

 LONGBEAK. 



Generic character: vide Steph, v. xii. 1. j^. 60. 



GENUS CCCXLV.— GALLINAGO; Ray. SNIPE. 

 Generic character : vide Steph. v. xii. l.p. 50. 

 Ga. Sabini: vide Steph. v. xii. I. p. 60. 



Ga. castaneo atroque varia, sultus pallidior ; pileo humeris ptero- 

 matibus remigibusque atris; rostro pedibusque fusco-atris. 



Snipe varied with chesnut and blacky paler beneath; with the 

 pileus, shoulders, wing-coverts, and quills dark ; the beak and 

 legs dark-brown. 



Scolopax Sabini. Linn. Trans. {Vigors.) v. xiv. p. 557. pi' 21. 



Inhabits Britain and Ireland. Length nine inches 

 and three eighths : beak deep brown, the upper man- 

 dible somewhat chesnut at the base : the throat, 



