. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . d allies by its unbarred underparts. Forsters Sandpiper is only known from the Society Islands, where it was obtained on Geographi-one of Capt. Cooks Voyages (Forsters unpublished drawings in the British Museum, tion_no. 120; Elliss ditto, no. 65). It was found on the islands of Otaheite and Eimeo. Ithas not been recorded by any recent traveller, and the only example known to exist is thatin the Leyden Museum. It has been suggested by some ornithologists that this bird belongs to
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . d allies by its unbarred underparts. Forsters Sandpiper is only known from the Society Islands, where it was obtained on Geographi-one of Capt. Cooks Voyages (Forsters unpublished drawings in the British Museum, tion_no. 120; Elliss ditto, no. 65). It was found on the islands of Otaheite and Eimeo. Ithas not been recorded by any recent traveller, and the only example known to exist is thatin the Leyden Museum. It has been suggested by some ornithologists that this bird belongs to the Rallidae Resemblesrather than to the Scolopacinse. It does unquestionably bear a superficial resemblance tosome of the Crakes, but it differs from them in all essential particulars. Its tarsus is longand slender, so is its bill; the nostrils are placed close to the base of the bill; all thetail-feathers except the two centre ones are barred ; and it has at least ten secondaries (in theRallida? eight appears to be the full number, exclusive of the tertials, which are colouredlike the wing-coverts). a CHAPTER XXIX. Genus RHYNCHM. Diagnosis of Chakadriidte digitis omnibus ad basin liberis: rostri, digiti medii (cum ungue) et tarsi longi-»onl18 tudine fere sequali: differentia inter longitudinem primarise longissimse et longitudinem primaria^ brevissimse quani rostri longitudo valde minore. Genericcharacters. The Painted Snipes have rather long bills, very rounded wings, short legs, and long may be diagnosed as follows :— CharadriievE having all the toes cleft to the base; having the dill (from the frontalfeathers), the middle toe (including the claw), and the tarsus of nearly equal length ; andhaving the difference in length between the shortest and longest primary much less than thelength of the bill. Synonymy of the Genus Rhynch^ea. Violation ofthe rulesnecessary. Type. Rostratula, Vieillut, Analyse dune Nouv. Orn. p. 56 (1816) R. eapensis. RliyncbBea, Cu
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