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GENERAL INDEX* 
VOL. PAGE 
ORDER PINNATIPEDES. 
Feet of a middling length, tarsus slender and com- 
pressed, three toes before and one behind, the front toes 
furnished with lobes or scalloped membranes, the hind 
toe articulated interiorly on the tarsus. 
GENUS FULICA. 
Bill thick, convex, strong, shorter than the head, 
compressed, its base rising far up the forehead, and 
spreading out into a gibbous membranaceous shield ; nos- 
trils pervious, placed in the centre of the bill ; body 
compressed; wings and tail short. 
Cinereous Coot, {F, Americana) - - ix 225 
GENUS PHALAROPUS. 
Bill straight ; under tail coverts extend to the tip 
of the tail ; body like that of the Sandpiper. 
Brown Phalarope, (P. lobatus) - - ix 232 
Gray P. (P. Fulicaiiiis) . - - ix 237 
ORDER PALMIPEDES. 
Feet generally short, webbed ; in some genera only 
the three forward toes are connected, in others, all four 
of the toes ; the hind toe is wanting in some genera. 
