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incapable of diving, and feeds on insects, mollusca, and worms. 
It has also been seen far out at sea among floating fuci. 
From the northern parts of both continents, where it passes 
the summer, it migrates southward in autumn. It does not 
appear that individuals remain in England all winter, the few 
that are seen there occurring in the course of their migra- 
tions. 
Water Snipe. Fed Phalarope. 
Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 249. — Fhalaropus 
hyperboreus and fuscus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 775. — Phalaro- 
pus hyperboreus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 709. — Lobipes hy- 
perboreus, Hyperborean Lobefoot, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, 
iv. 
FAMILY XXXYI. TOTANINIE. TOTANINE 
BIRDS, OR TATTLERS. 
In their general appearance, internal structure, and 
various organs, the birds which form this family differ 
little from the Tringinse. But while the latter have the 
body moderately full, the legs of ordinary length or con- 
siderably elongated, and the bill, though long, soft, and 
blunt at the end, the Totaninse have the body slen- 
der, the legs often extremely elongated, and the bill ex- 
tremely slender, attenuated at the end, pointed, and in 
its terminal half firm though elastic. Upper mandible 
with the ridge convex, the edges inflected, the nasal 
groove very narrow and extending half its length, the tip 
narrowed and slightly decurved ; lower mandible with the 
intercrural space long and extremely narrow, the sides 
grooved nearly as far as the angle, the edges inflected, 
the tip narrow. Mouth extremely narrow ; tongue very 
slender, tapering, horny toward the end, pointed ; oeso- 
phagus narrow ; proventriculus oblong ; stomach a strong 
gizzard, with the lateral muscles moderately thick, the 
epithelium dense and longitudinally rugous ; intestine 
rnather long and of moderate width ; coeca of moderate 
length and narrow. Nostrils linear, subbasal, pervious. 
