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the head, are on many of the species. Tarsus 
sometimes with a small hinder toe. (Jig. 320. 6) 
V. cri status. Selby, ii. pi. 34. 
(Edicnemds, Thick-knee. Cid- 
men scarcely depressed in 
the middle, hard and 
strong, its entire length. 
Nostrils large, membrana- 
ceous, not placed in a groove; 
the aperture large, oval, terminal. Tad loiter th 
the wings, rounded or graduated. Feet three-toed. 
The rasorial type. (Jig- 322.) „ , - xr 
O. crepitans. PI. Enl. 919. Americanos. Part 5. No. . 
Tachydromus *, llliger. Courier. Bill short, slender. 
No^tX short, membranaceous, not placed m a groove 
Mked ; the aperture oval and lateral. Culmen stoight 
as far as the nostrils, but curved beyond. Wings 
p„i te. A»’.r f..- »»!■ Th. no. 
flattened or margined. 
Glarbola, Linn. Fratincole. Bill “p ' 
culmen elevated and convex : gonys straight Feet 
. four.toed. Middle toe and claw very long ; *e atter 
greatly developed, slightly curved, dilated, and ob- 
soletely serrated; inner toe shortest; hinder toe ele 
vated, but touching the ground. Connected to 
Tachydromus by Tach, chalcopterusj PI. Co . 29 • 
G. torquata. Selby, ii. pi- 6S. 
Tachydromus, \mg,or. Courier, (fig. S2S.) BiU broader 
than high at its base : both mandibles often curved . tne 
* There seems to me little doubt that these subgenera, howe^e^ 
widely apart they have hitherto been the plovers, is 
natural affinities of the group, whether with the bustards or tn p 
by no means determined. Is it not a flssirostral type / 
