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when that is done peacefully floating outside the breakers” (7). To the orni- 
thologist, also, who has never watched them in life, the Phalaropes are interest- 
ing birds in virtue of the strongly pronounced seasonal change of plumage, of 
their Coot-like feet, and from the circumstance, which Naum an n suspected in 
part and which Prof. Newton now states definitely, that the male undertakes 
the duty of incubation, when it sits so fast that it only leaves the nest to escape 
being trodden upon; moreover, it is the female which wears the brighter, hand- 
somer plumage aud is the larger bird. The same conditions are found in Turnix 
and Centrococc^x. These facts, of which there are very few examples in ornithology, 
prove that a higher development of plumage and ornament on the one hand and 
the so-called maternal instincts on the other are not exclusively connected with sex. 
GENUS LIMICOLA K.L.Kocli. 
Plumage like that of a Snipe. Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw, 
shorter than the hill. The bill is very high at the base, flat in the middle, 
and decurved towards the tip. It differs from the Snipes by its short toes, and 
the eye not being set far back in the head; from the Stints by its plumage 
and bill. A single species ranging from the north of the Palaearctic Kegion to 
Celebes and the Moluccas in winter. 
336. LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNOHA (Temm.). 
Broad-billed Sandpiper. 
a. Tringa platyrincha (1) Temm., Man. d’Om. 1815, 398. 
h. Limicola pygmaea (Bechst.); (1) Kocli, Baier. Zool. 1816, 316; (2) Kadde & Walter, 
Ornis 1889, 114, 232, 277. 
c. Tringa platyrhyncha (1) Meyer &Wolf, Orn. Taschenb. 1822, III, 259; (2) Schl., Mus. 
P.-B., Scolopaces, 1864, 49; (3) Hume, Str. P. 1873, I, 244; (4) id., ib. 1874, H, 
298; (5) David & Oust., Ois. Cbine 1877, 470; (6) Seek, Ibis 1884, 33; (7) id., 
Distr. Cbaradr. 1877, 433; (8) id., B. Japan 1890, 337; (9) Styan, Ibis 1891, 
330, 506; (10) Q-atke, Vogelwarte Helgol. 1891, 525; (11) Styan, Ibis 1893, 437; 
(12) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Eeise 1893, IH, 283; (13) Newton, Diet. B. 
pt. in, 1894, 813. 
d. Limicola hartlaubi (1) Verr. in Vinson’s Voy. Madag. Annexe B. 1865, 5; Hartl., 
Vog. Madag. 1877, 322. 
Limicola platyrhyncha (1) Salvad., Oat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 322; (II) Dresser, B. Europe 
Vm, 3, pi. 545 (1876); (3) Hume & Davis., Str. E. 1878, VT, 461; (4) Wald., 
P. Z. S. 1878, 712; (4>>'>) Hume, Str. E. 1879, VHI, 158; (5) Legge, B. Ceylon 
1880, 896; (6) Ward!. Earns., Tweedd. Om. Works 1881, 660; (7) Oates, B. Brit. 
Burmab 1883, H, 387; (8) Oigl. & Salvad., P. Z. S. 1887, 586; (9) W. Bias., 
Omis 1888, 319; (10) id.. Ibis 1888, 374; ('ll; Everett, J. Str. Br. E. A. S. 1889, 
207; (12) Wbitebd., Ibis 1890, 59; (13) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Pbilipp. 1890, 
26; (14) Sbarpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 612, 769. 
For further synonymy cf. Dresser II] Sharpe 14. 
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