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TOWNSEND'S SUEF-BIED. 
racters sufficient to constitute a subgenus in immediate connection with 
Strepsilas, I propose to give it the name of Aphriza Townsendi, the generic 
appellation (derived from and &u) being expressive of the habits of 
the bird, as indicated in the notice of its discoverer, wh# appears to me to 
have the best claim for the specific name. 
Genus III.— STREPSILAS, IUiger. TURNSTONE. 
Bill a little shorter than the head, rather stout, compressed, tapering, 
straightish, being recurvate in a slight degree ; upper mandible with the 
dorsal line very slightly concave, the nasal groove extending to the middle, 
the sides beyond it sloping, the tip depressed and blunted ; lower mandible 
with the angle short, the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the sides 
convex, the edges sharp, the tip depressed and blunted. Nostrils sub-basal, 
linear-oblong, pervious. Head rather small, ovate ; neck of ordinary length ; 
body rather full. Feet of moderate length, rather stout ; tibia bare at the 
lower part, and covered with reticulated scales ; tarsus roundish, with nume- 
rous broad anterior scutella ; toes four, the first very small and elevated, 
anterior toes free to the base, distinctly margined, the inner a little shorter 
than the outer. Claws rather small, arched, compressed, blunted. Plumage 
full, soft, rather dense, and glossy. Wings long, pointed, of moderate 
breadth, first quill longest, inner secondaries elongated. Tail rather short, 
slightly rounded, of twelve moderately broad feathers. 
