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BROWN PHALAROPE. 
standing, by a diligent study of it, I have been enabled to 
ascertain that it is the coot-footed tringa of Edwards, plate 46 
and 143, to which bird Linnseus gave the specific denomina- 
tion of lobata^ as will be seen in the synonymes at the head of 
this article. In the twelfth edition of the Sy sterna Naturae^ 
the Swedish naturalist, conceiving that he might have been 
in error, omitted, in his description of the lohata^ the syno- 
nyme of Edward’s cock coot-footed tringa. No. 143, and 
recorded the latter bird under the name of liyperhorea — a spe- 
cific appellation, which Temminck and other ornithologists 
have sanctioned, but which the laws of methodical nomencla- 
ture prohibit us from adopting, as, beyond all question, hyper- 
horea is only a synonyme of lohata^ which has the priority, and 
must stand. 
M. Temminck differs from us in the opinion that the T. 
lohata of Gmelin, vol. i. p. 674, is the present species, and 
refers it to that which follows. But, if this respectable orni- 
thologist will take the trouble to look into the twelfth edition 
of Linnseus, vol. i. p. 249, No. 8, he will there find two 
false references, Edwards’s No. 308, and Brisson’s No. 1, 
which gave rise to Gmelin’s confusion of synonymes, and a 
consequent confusion in his description, as the essential 
character in both authors being nearly in the same words, 
(rostro suhulato, apice inflexo^ we are at no loss to infer 
that both descriptions have reference to the same bird ; and 
we are certain that the lohata of the twelfth edition of the 
former, is precisely the same as that of the tenth edition, 
which cites for authority, Edwards’s 46 and 143, as before 
mentioned. 
I shall now give the short description of the bird figured in 
the plate, as I find it in Wilson’s Note Book : — 
Bill, black, slender, and one inch and three-eighths in 
length. In the original, the bill is said to be one inch and 
three-quarters long. In length, lores, front, crown, hind- 
head, and thence to the back, very pale ash, nearly white ; 
