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HYPERBOREAN PHALAROPE. 
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they even differ subgenerically, and that this one alone ought to 
form the genus Lobipes of Cuvier. 
The Lobipes of Cuvier, since called by the recent English 
writers Lobefoot, and on which Vieillot imposed the name of 
Phalaropus , is formed in our opinion of this single species, not¬ 
withstanding that Cuvier and some English authors include the 
P. ivilsonii in it on account of its bill being similar. But the feet 
are too different to allow of such a reunion, being in this one 
precisely similar to those of the flat-billed species. 
The bill of the Lobefoot is moderate in length, slender, smooth, 
cylindrical throughout, and a little stoutish at base, subulate to 
the tip, with the point narrow and sharp: the upper mandible 
curves slightly upon the lower at tip, where they do not quite 
meet, as occurs in some Totani: the nostrils are not quite basal, 
as in the Holopodius, and are linear instead of the subovate form 
of the Crymophilus , or true Phalarope : the tongue is also filiform 
and acute, and by no means broad, fleshy, and obtuse, as in the 
same group. The tarsi are however longer than in this, though 
shorter and less compressed than in the Holopodius: the toes are 
likewise intermediate as to length between the two other groups : 
the middle one is connected with the inner to the first joint, and 
with the outer to the second; the edging membrane is broad, 
deeply scallopped, and finely pectinated: the hind toe is very 
short, only the nail touching the ground. The wings are more 
elongated than in Crymophilus: the tail on the contrary is shorter, 
and the general form slender, in which respect, and some others 
also, they bear a resemblance to Totanus. 
The Hyperborean Lobefoot, as represented in its summer, 
though not its perfect plumage, is seven and a half inches long, 
and fourteen and a quarter in extent. The bill is less than an 
inch long, black, exceedingly slender, and with both mandibles 
remarkably acute, the upper being rather longer and somewhat 
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