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should not have recognised in their Lobipes incanus , the young of a 
well known species, and should have given in that state a sixth spe- 
cific name to a bird only discovered a few years ago, is not much 
to be wondered at ; but what is not a little extraordinary, is that 
they, who are so justly scrupulous about priority, should adopt for 
Phalaropus wilsonii, Sabine, the much posterior name of Temm. 
posterior even to that of Vieillot, thus slighting over one of the 
few and best positive zoological labours of their countrymen, even 
after it had been sanctioned by others. 
Note 26 . The abolition of one Family, the addition of seven 
genera, and other important modifications of the Order Ansekes, 
render it necessary to give the following improved edition of that 
part of our Analytical Table. 
ORDER V. ANSERES. 
Tarsi compressed, abbreviated : tibia almost always partly 
naked : toes palmated. 
32. Loncipennes. Hind toe free, or wanting : margins of 
the bill entire : wings long, acute. 
* Bill of one piece, nostrils simple. 
** Upper mandible seamed, nostrils simple. 
*** Both mandibles seamed : nostrils tubular. 
33. Lamellosodentati. Hind toe free : margins of the 
bill denticulated. 
* Teeth lamelliform. ** Teeth conic. 
34. Steganopodes. Toes four, all connected by a broad 
membrane. 
* Bill seamed. ** Bill not seamed. 
35. Pygopodes. Hind toe free or wanting : margins of the 
bill entire, wings short, rounded. 
* Four-toed. ** Three-toed. 
36. Impennes. Hind toe free, directed forwards : no quills 
nor tail. 
