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Genus— X E N U S. 
Xenus Kaup, Skizz. Entwick-Gesch. Xat. Syst., p. 115, 1829 Type X. cinereus. 
Limicola Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 554, 1831 . . . . Type X. cinereus. 
(not Limicola Koch, 1816) 
Terekia Bonaparte, Comp. List Birds Europe and N. Amer., 
p. 52, 1838 . . . . . . . . , , . . Type X. javanicus. 
Simorhynchus Keyserhng imd Blasius, Wirbelth. Europa’s, 
p. Ixxiv., 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . Type X. cinereus. 
Khynchosimus Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 326, 1888 Type X. cinereus. 
New name for Simorhynchus preoccupied, and substitute 
for Terekia on grounds of purism. 
Smallest Totanine Waders with very long up-curved biUs, long wings, medium 
tail, short legs, and long toes. The culmen is very long and distmctly upturned, 
with the tip not expanded but decurved ; the base of the culmen is considerably 
wider than the tip, and the lower mandible has the base proportionately more 
swollen, the mterramal space being unfeathered ; the groove in the upper 
mandible extends more than half the length of the culmen. The culmen is 
less than half the length of the wing, but more than one-third. The wings are 
long and pointed with first primary longest, and are more than twice the length 
of the tail. The tail is rounded and of medium length being longer than the 
culmen, but less than half the length of the wing. The metatarsus is short, but 
is more than half the length of the culmen, and is regularly scutellate in front 
and behind. The toes are long and the outer connected with the middle by 
a distinct basal web which almost extends to the second joint, the inner 
showing a distinct web with the middle one wliich extends to the first 
joint ; the middle toe is shorter than the metatarsus, and a long hind toe 
is present. 
The generic name Xenus has been rejected on account of a prior Xenos, 
but as the Laws have not yet been altered to admit such action, I have no 
alternative but to use the former. 
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