FAMILY XXir. 
PINNA TIPEDES, Buissosf. 
GEJJUS \,VU.—PUALAROPUS, Brissow. 
SITBGENUS 1. rilJIUBOeifS, CUVIER. 
241. PBALAnOPUS FVLICJSXIS, BONREARTE. FHALAS0‘ 
urrERBOssas, witsos.— brown phabarope.* 
WILSON, PLATE LATHI. FIG. III. 
Of this species only one specimen was ever see# 
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Wilson, and that was preserved in Trowbridge’s Muse ^ 
at Albany, in the State of New York. On referri#? . 
Wilson’s Journal, I found an account of the bird, t# ,i 
called a tringa, written with a lead pencil, but ^ 
scraw'led and obscured that parts of the writinff ^ 
not legible. I wrote to Mr Trowbridge, solicit!#^! 
particular description; but no answer was retur#^ 
However, having had the good fortune, since publisb'J 
the first edition, of examining a fine recent speci*#!^ 
of this rare bird, I hope I shall be enabled to rj 
species by such characters as uill prevent any ora^'A 
legist in future from confounding it with the #P , 
which follows, — two birds, which, owing to a 
precision, ivere involved in almost inextricable co# ^ 
sioii, until Teniminck applied himself to the 
disembroiling them ; and this ingenious naturalist ^ 
fully proved that the seven species of authors co#^ 
tuted, in effect, only two species. ji 
Teraminck’s distinctive characters are drawn 
the bill ; and he has divided the genus into 
sections, — an arrangement of which, the utility 
evident, seeing that each section contains but " A 
species, unless wo may consider the barred phalarop' 
* Named in the plate, Gray Phalarope. The descidptio#*^ 
bird is written by Mr Ord. 
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