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The birds of this form inhabiting the northern coast have longer 
legs and shorter wings, and I have no doubt are distinct ; but I have 
not seen a sufficient number of specimens to enable me to affirm 
that such is actually the case. 
Genus Esacus. 
The genera (Edicnemus and Esacus are merely modifications of 
the same form ; the variation in that of the bill being expressly 
adapted for procuring the kinds of food upon which they respectively 
subsist; the CEdicnemus frequenting the stony deserts of the interior 
of the country feeds upon insects of various kinds, and the tender 
shoots of herbage ; while the Esacus , resorting to the salt-marshes 
and the shores of the sea, lives upon crabs, mollusks and other ma- 
rine animals. 
462. Esacus magnirostris Vol. VI. PI. 6. 
So far as our knowledge extends, the present bird is confined to 
the shores of the northern and north-western parts of Australia. It 
is beautifully represented in India by the E. recurvirostris , and these 
two species are all that are known to ornithologists. 
Genus FLematopus. 
I believe that there is no country in the world of any extent the 
shores of which are not inhabited by one or other of the numerous 
species of this genus ; but it would seem that all those which exist 
in the southern hemisphere are totally different from those of the 
northern. 
Two species inhabit Australia, viz. 
463. Haematopus longirostris, Vieill. Vol. VI. PI. 7* 
464. Haematopus fuliginosus, Gould Vol. VI. PI. 8. 
Genus Lobi vanellus. 
Two species of this beautiful form inhabit Australia, one the 
northern and the other the southern parts of the country ; I be- 
lieve they are both confined to this portion of the globe. Other 
species are found in India and Africa. 
465. Lobivanellus lobatus Vol. VI. PI. 9. 
466. Lobivanellus personatus, Gould .... Vol. VI. PI. 10. 
Genus Sarciophorus. 
A genus nearly allied to the last, and of which a single species 
inhabits Australia; like Lobivanellus , it is an Old World form. 
467. Sarciophorus pectoralis ....... Vol.VI.Pl.il. 
Genus Squatarola. 
The single species of this genus inhabits Europe, Asia, North 
America and Australia. 
468. Squatarola Helvetica ........ Vol. VI. PI. 12. 
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