GRAY PHALAROPE. 
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fulicaria is Edwards’s Red Coot-footed Tringa, pi. 142, and 
that alone, for it does not appear that Linnseus had seen the 
bird. The circumstance of the change of the generic appellation 
can in nowise affect 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 myself that this humble attempt to vindicate the 
rights of Linseus, will be approved by all those who love those 
sciences, of which he was so illustrious a promoter. ^ 
editors: — Gmelin, whose thirteenth edition of the Systema Naturse has in- 
volved the whole science in almost inextricable confusion, and Turton, 
whose English translation of Gmelin is a disgrace to science and letters. 
All writers on Zoology and Botany should possess Linnasus’s tenth and 
twelfth editions; they will be found to be of indispensible use in tracing 
synonymes, and fixing nomenclature. 
* From Mr. Ord’s supplementary Volume. 
