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PHALAHOPUS FULICAHIUS. 
Systema Nattirce* will shew that the authority 
tringafuhcana is Edwards’s red coot-footed tringa. 
pi. 142, and that alone, for it does not appear tba* 
?i «i'-c«mstance of th-* 
ihn fn!. ''‘PP‘>Uation can in nowise afferi 
the specifac name ; the present improved state of tb« 
science rei/uires the former, justice demands that tb* 
latter should he preserved. In this worklhavepre- 
served It; and I flatter myself that this humble attemp' 
tyindicatc the ri-hts of Linnams will be approved b)' 
all those who love the sciences of which he was so 
Illustrious a promoter. 
‘is** f Systema Naturte, the tenth and tbf 
ranlaiL 1 ‘^c former being the first whii* 
C finll,* 'md the latter being that which receive^ 
almost has involved the whole science i® 
I don of * eontusion; and Turton, whose English trans- 
lation ot Crmelm is a disgrace to science and letters All writei* 
on zoology and botany should possess Linriicus’s tenth and twelflb 
editions; they mil be found to be of indispensaUe ^ in traS>« 
synonymes and fixing nomenclature. 
