. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . yperhoreusof most authors, as of all former the Key. Ph. fuscus Lath. 1790. Ph. vulgaris Bechst. 1803. Ph. williamsii SiM-monds, 1807. Ph. cinereiis Meyer, 1810. Ph. ruficol
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . yperhoreusof most authors, as of all former the Key. Ph. fuscus Lath. 1790. Ph. vulgaris Bechst. 1803. Ph. williamsii SiM-monds, 1807. Ph. cinereiis Meyer, 1810. Ph. ruficollis and Ph. cinerascens Pale. 1811 ; Naum. 1836. Ph. lobipes Keys, and Blas. 1840. Ph. australis and molticcen-sis Temm. Ph. asiatieus and Lobipes tropicus Hume, 1873. Lobipes lobatus Bd. EiDGW. 1884. Phalaropus {Phalaropus!) lobatus A. 0. U. Lists, 1886-95, No. (Coined by Brisson in 1760 from Gr. (paXapis, phalaris, the coot, andTTovs, pons, foot, to express what Edwards meant in saying Coot-footed.) Coot-FOOTPhalaropes. Bill scarcely longer than head or tarsus; very stout for this family; much de-pressed, so broad as to be almost s])atulate, tip only moderately acute, lancet-shaped. Uppermandible with ridge broad and flattened, apex arched and decurved, lateral grooves wide andshallow. Interramal space broad and very long, extending nearly to end of bill. Nostrils. Phalarope. (From Seebohms Chara- PHALAROPODID^: PHALAROPES. 797 subbasal, at some distance from base of bill. Wings long and pointed. Tail long, rounded,central rectrices projecting, rather acuminate. Legs and feet mucli as in Lobipes, but theseniipalniation of less extent. Phalarojnts Bkiss. I7G0, type Phalaropusphalaropus 17GU, vi, p. 12, as fixed by Brissou himself; and by no process of elimination can thetype be made another species of a difierent genus, Crymophilus, as was done by the A. 0. 18H5. Crrjmophilus Vieill. 1816, type Phalaropus phalaropus Br
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