The Key to Scientific Names

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Microsarcops

(Charadriidae; syn. Vanellus  Grey-headed Lapwing V. cinereus) Gr. μικροσαρκος mikrosarkos  with little flesh  < μικρος mikros  little; σαρξ sarx, σαρκος sarkos  flesh; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face; "Key to the Genera  ...  b. With no spur on the wing; a wattle on the lores  ...  1. No crest; a small hind toe and claw; wattle minute . . . .8. MICROSARCOPS, p. 133.  ...  8. MICROSARCOPS.   Range. Eastern Siberia, south to British Burma and Eastern Bengal.   1. Microsarcops cinereus" (Sharpe 1896); "Microsarcops Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 24, 1896, p. 123 (in key), p. 133.  Type, by monotypy, Pluvianus cinerea Blyth." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 237).


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