«totes of the BaMc’ Sea. i It appears also, though rarely,}.'during
spring and autumn in the. southern Scandinavia* pSoVinees.' ^In
England it is very rare, and' quite as accidental as in -the TJnitdt
States, though it has. been qasually observed in Germany, *E®ahce,
and eyen on t,he great lakes of Switzerland: an individual was.
killed op the lake of-Geneva in August, S&06, the only one ever
seen on that lake; where the flat-billed Phalarope is by. no means
so'excessively rare j.-the specimen alluded to wa s i l l e d white
swimming and picking up small diptCra from thef^urlace of
the wpjter. These wanderers are always young birds ; but never
within my knowledge has an-individual been known to stray, intii
• any part of Italy. -•■The favourite food of A ir speciesr-is wateill
i®seetSj ’especially diptera, thatiabotind at the m«uHfe of rivers;
The old onesif-hover round their young when - ex^sed* to any
imminent danger*repeatingprip, prirngmd at the* eommenoenpnt
of Augasfcearry them out ito^sea, a tWeenltrof that- moW-h being,
no longer to be found inland, 'ghe Greenlanders kift*h«awwith
their arrowsi and eat the.flesh, which being oily, suiteAeir taste.:
they ak o k e ep the very soft -skin, making use of it t© rub * e i r
eyes with, and thinking^ it efficacious ini euring ’a ;Sppei#!(aii£
ophthalmia 4» which-they. are; subject. *•
Although the specific name of idfrate.whs given first1 byLinne* to
thepresent speeiesbe$0®e he bestowed upon it the additional one
a£ hyperborea, we hhve thought it proper to retain the latter, which
is also Linnean, because, that of lobata has been successively
applied .tO vfeaeh ofvthe three species, and by. Latham exclusively
appr®priated; «to another;, whilst the Re sent, has never been so-
misapplied, and is long,-since unanirtfbusly eonseeratedr to this
speeies^: By adopting <,the ppior n a iiS I f kbmkfa we should have
keen compelled.,to quote our *own. authority, and say Ph. labatm,
Nqb., spte,ifA. lo b a t^ iiAriz. is the Phtfufilmrim, and Ph. lobattis,
Orb, tfrjj.Sift, Wiisomi.
m
LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER.
TRING A HIMANTOPUS.
Plate XXV. Fig. 3. •
Tringa himariiópus, N o n . in Jinn. Lye. New York, IT, p. 1 5 7 . I d . Cat. and Syn. birds
01% agfrmo. I d - Speech, comp< sp. PMlcuL
My collection.
■ T h e figureMOf this remarkable bird cannot fail to create a
sensation among naturalists,'And a careful examination may
induce thenPto attach dioredSportance to Our subgenus pHemipa-
lama than Baroju C uw r hal|done, and to admit ftaklt* is quite as
distinct as his Machemk That this has not asfeeady been done is
no doubt because life real typeyffibich is this species, was so little
k n o w n . The Tringa semipalmem of Wilson, which we have united
witn*ït merely on* account of its semipalmated has no. real
affinity withwt, but is similar to the otherSandpipers, and we
should,never have thdlght of instituting a separat| group for it
alone, more than for the^haradrius semipalmatus. m
The Long-legged Sfpdpiper iès in fao| onè of those beings that
although intmaat^ypainected with fgveral groups, with which
they have many tnmfs in commoni-yet possets peeuliag^ies sufficient
to insulMC them completely from all that surround them.
It is véf^ remarkabl^ foK, . its anomalous characters! Though
decidedly a Tringa, ill connects, still more evidently than the
oAer species with long ^Birched bills|«haflldve been placed in
Npipenius by Gerngan authors, ibis latt^, >^na® with its oWitej
since io thft öAer ©bmdnoiï traits of re&ehaÉl&nce h unites thé
sendpalmitted toes; So th a | in fact insteaiPof pacing it at the
fejfiad of the Tringw, it should rather be arranged last of itle
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