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Genus — L I M I C 0 L A . 
Limicola Koch, Syst. baier., Zool., p. 316, 1816 Type 
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Platyrha7nphus Billberg Synops. Fauiise Scand., Tom. 
I., pars 2 (Aves), Tab. a, and p. 172, 1828 . . Type 
Falcinellus Kaup, Skizz. Entwick-Gesch. Nat. Syst., 
P. 37, 1829 
Type 
L. falcinellus. 
L. falcinellus, 
L. falcinellus. 
Smallest Waders with very long broad bills, long wings, medium tail, short 
legs and feet. 
The culmen is very long, broad, from the middle flattened and with the 
tip decurved ; the groove in the upper mandible becomes obsolete in the 
terminal half, due to this flattening ; the culmen is much longer than the 
tarsus which is again longer than the middle toe. 
The wings are long and narrow with the first primary longest. The tail 
is more than one-third the length of the wing. The metatarsus is short, 
regularly scutellate both in front and behind ; it is not much more than 
two-thirds the length of the culmen, and nearly half as long again as the 
middle toe. The feet are small, the middle toe being much shorter than the 
metatarsus ; short hind toe present. 
As recorded in the Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., p. 31, 1912, Li^nicola 
Koch, 1816, is antedated by Lhnicula Vieillot, 1816, and may be rejected by 
some writers on that account. In the case of the specific name “ Maticula^'* it 
was shown by purists that it should be amended to “ hiaticola : ” probably 
similar reasoning might be adopted in this case.* PlatyrJia^nphus was 
introduced by Billberg for this species alone and would then become available. 
* Agassiz did amend Limicula Vieillot to Limicola. 
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