GRAY PHALAROPE. 
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Ftilicaria is Edwards’s Red Coot-footed Tringa, pi. 142, and that 
alone, for it does not appear that Linnaeus had seen the bird. The 
circumstance of the change of the generic appellation can in no 
wise aflect the specific name ; the present improved state of the 
science requires the former, justice demands that the latter should 
be preserved. In this work I have preserved it ; and I flatter my- 
self that this humble attempt to vindicate the rights of Linnaeus 
will be approved by all those who love those sciences of which he 
was so illustrious a promoter. 
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