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which, however, the extremity is more rounded, the semicircular plate
more decurved, and concave above, as represented by fig. 6. In Rallus
Fig. 7- Fig. 8. Fig. 9.
elegans, fig. 7, and the Rails generally, the terminal plate is similar, but
narrow and rather curved upwards. It is in the genera Strepsilas, Charadrius
and Totanus, that the terminal plate, being narrower, more elongated
and more pointed, assumes more especially the semblance of a second
claw. The extremities of the middle toes of Totanus semipabnatus and
Charadrius Pluvialis, are represented by figs 8. and 9.
Having now reached the point from which I started, according to the
approved method of reasoning in a circle, or if not, of exhibiting natural
objects in a circular arrangement, I take my leave, hoping that when I
again request your indulgence, I shall be enabled to present you with something
equally curious, and perhaps better calculated to induce you to extend
your inquiries into the neglected parts of the structure of those objects,
whose investigation cannot fail to raise our minds towards the Being who
framed the beautiful and harmonious system of which we form a part.
Page 211, line 4, for Traders read Waders
222, ... 2, ... Sir James Ross, read Sir John Ross,
273, ... 22, ... Orelans read Orleans
317, ... 13 from bottom, for even read not only
325, ... 22, for Santie read Santee
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