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,ONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER.
TRINGA HIMANTOPUS.
Plate XXV. Fig. 3.
B. in Ann. Lye. New York, fI, p. 157. ID. Cat. and Syn. birds
SPech. comp. ep. Philad.
M l .  ,.,.1 .,J 2,
busy wawu&c
THE figure of this remarkable bird cannot fail to create a
sensation among naturalists, and a careful examination may
induce them to attach more importance to our subgenus Hemipa-
lama than Baron Cuvier has done, and to admit that it is quite as
distinct as his Machetes. That this has not already been done is
no doubt because the real tvne. which is this qnecies. was sn little.
m1. The Tringa semipalmata of Wilson, which we have united
it merely on account of its semipalmated toe, has no real
ty with it, but is similar to the other Sandpipers, and we
should never have thought of instituting a separate group for it
alone, more than for the Charadijus semipahnatus.
The Lofig-legged Sandpiper is in fact one of those beings that
although intimately connected with several groups, with    ich
they have many things in, common, yet possess peculiarities suffi-,
cient to insulate them 661111pletely oin all , that surrou d them.
it is very remarkable for its anomalous characters. Though
decidedly a, Tringa, it connects, still more evidently than, the
i6thibr'species with lone subarched bills, that have been placed in
Numenius by Geran authors, this latter genus with its own,
since to the'othercomnion traits of resemblance it unites the
semipalmated toes; so that -in fact instead of placing it -at the
head of the Triiigw, it should rather be arranged' last Of the
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