Genus— PHALAROPUS Brisson. 
(Plate 91.) 
Phalaropus Brisson, Ornith., Vol. I., p. 50, 
Vol. VI., p. 21, 1760. Type (by 
tautonymy .. .. .. .. Phalaropus=Tring a fulicarius L. 
Medium-sized “ Sandpipers ” with long, flattish bills, long pointed wings, 
fan-shaped tails, compressed tarsus and lobed feet. 
The bill is about equal in length to the head, flat, compressed, widened 
towards the tip ; frontal feathers extend beyond the gape : a long grove 
divides off the culmen. Nostrils basal, elliptical, and placed near the base in 
a fleshy part of the grove. Interramal space thin, unfeathered and extending 
about three-quarters the length of the lower mandible. Wing long and pointed, 
with the first primary longest. Secondary coverts almost as long as the wing. 
Tail fan-shaped wdth the under tail-coverts as long as the central tail-feathers. 
Tarsus, bill and middle toe and claw of about equal length. Tarsus compressed, 
anterior edge more so, covered in front and behind with scutes. Outer toe a 
little longer than the inner. Forward toes joined at the base with a web, the 
outer web being the larger. Lobes divided at each joint (where there is no 
web). ( fidicarius .) 
Gray, Gen. Birds, Vol. III., pi. 155, for head, wing and foot. 
Genus —LOBIPES Cuvier. 
Lobipes Cuvier Regne Anim., Vol. I., p. 495, 1817—Dec. 7th, 1816. Type (by 
monotypy): Tringa hyperborea L 1766— Tring lobata L. 
Lobipes. Small wading and swimming birds wdth long slender bills, 
resembling Phalaropus. The bill is a little longer than the head, culmen ridge 
convex, flattened at the base but not broadened, slender, the tip depressed; 
the nasal groove extends nearly the length of the bill, the linear nostrils placed 
therein basahy; lower mandible slender, grooved along the sides ; interramal 
space long, narrow and unfeathered, the gonydeal angle slight. The wing 
is long and pointed, the first primary longest, the tertiaries verj^ long, reaching 
to the tip of the fifth primary. The tail is long and narrow and less than half 
the length of the wing, but only about twice the length of the culmen. Legs 
short and slender ; matatames less than the length of the culmen ; and scutel- 
late toes, long with small scallops on each side of the joints, the outer webs the 
longest; the inner toe is less than the outer, the middle toe longest; claws small; 
hind-toe very small. ( lobatus ) pi. 91 figs. 1 to 3 by Miss Medland. 
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