LIMOSINiE. 
fiist  quill  the  longest.  Tail  short  and  even.  Tarsi  longer  than  the  middle  toe,  rather  slender,  and 
*^eiuh  narrow  transverse  scales.  Toes  long ; the  outer  toe  united  to  the  middle  toe  by  a 
i-n  X-  ^0®  slightly  united  ; the  hind  toe  long,  slender,  and  partly 
§ npon  the  ground  ; the  claws  short  and  obtuse. 
The 
Senus  found  in  most  parts  of  the  world.  Their  habits  and  manners  are  similar  to  those  given  with  the  last 
^hn.-  (Linn.)  Pi.  enl.  874.  916.  — Scolopax  Liraosa 
f'-SOS  Gmel.;  S.  melanura  Leiskr,  Gould,  B.  of  Eur. 
2.  L -Bccto. 
p,  • ^‘etanuroides  Gould,  Proc.  Z.  S.  1846,  p.  .,  B.  of  Austr. 
B‘-‘ss.  Orn.  v.  t.  24,  f.  2.,  PI.  enl.  900.- 
Scolopax  leucoplioea  EaWi. ; Totanus  gregariui 
y,,  Paft  • T.  glottis  il/cj/er;  .^L.  MeyeriEmfer 
4.  , / Bechst.  Naturg.  ii.  n.  172. 
a. 
riugineaPnft  • T.  glottis  il/cj/er;  .^L.  Meyeri  Emfer, 
^Bechst.  Naturg.  ii.  p.  172. 
^ealandim  G.  R.  Gray,  Zool.  Ereb.  & Terr.  Birds, 
5.  L.yedoa  (Linn.)  Edwards’s  Birds,  pi.  137.,  Wils.  Amer.  Orn. 
pi.  56.  f.  4.  — Scolopax  marmorata  Lath.  Gal.  des  Ois.  11.  t.,  Au- 
dub.  B.  of  Amer.  pi.  2S8. 
6.  L.  htcdsonica  (Lath.)  Swains.  Audub.  B.  of  Amer.  pi.  258., 
Edw.  pi.  138..'’ 
7.  L.  alba  (Linn.)  Edwards’s  Birds,  pi.  139.  — Limosa  Candida 
Briss. ; L.  Edwardsii  Rich.  S;  Sw. 
8.  L.  cinerea  (Giild.)  Nov.  Comm.  Petrop.  xix.  473.  t.  ip.  — 
Liraosa  recurvirostra  Pall. ; Scolopax  terek  Lath. ; Tringa  javanica 
Horsf.  Gould,  B.  of  Eur.  pi.  307-  Limosa  indiana  Less. ; Fedoa 
terekensis  Steph. ; Type  of  Xenus  Kaup  (1829). 
1847. 
