Editing Attagis

{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{automatic taxobox
| taxon = Attagis
| image = AttagisChimborazensisSmit.jpg 
| authority = [[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I.]] & [[René Primevère Lesson|Lesson, RP]], 1831
| type_species = ''[[Rufous-bellied seedsnipe|Attagis gayi]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=58 |title= Thinocoridae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Lesson, 1831
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
* ''[[Rufous-bellied seedsnipe|Attagis gayi]]''
* ''[[White-bellied seedsnipe|Attagis malouinus]]''
}}

'''''Attagis ''''' is a genus of [[seedsnipe]], a  [[South America]]n family of small gregarious [[wader]]s which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.

These birds look superficially like [[partridge]]s in structure and bill shape. They have short legs and long wings. Their 2-3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.

The genus was erected by the French ornithologists [[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|Isidore Saint-Hilaire]] and [[René Lesson]] in 1831 with the [[rufous-bellied seedsnipe]] (''Attagis gayi'') as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | first1=Isidore   | author1-link=Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | last2=Lesson | first2=René | author2-link=René Lesson | year=1831 | title=Centurie Zoologique | language=fr | pages=130, 135 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28724675 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=306 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483119 }}</ref> The name ''Attagis'' is the word used for a game bird in [[Ancient Greek]] texts. It probably referred to the [[black francolin]] (''Francolinus francolinus'').<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n60 60] }}</ref>

== Species ==
The genus contains two species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Grebes, flamingos, buttonquail, plovers, painted-snipes, jacanas, plains-wanderer, seedsnipes  | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grebes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=19 July 2019 }}</ref>
{{Species table |genus=Attagis  |authority-name=[[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I.]] & [[René Primevère Lesson|Lesson, RP]]|authority-year= 1831 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row
|name=[[Rufous-bellied seedsnipe]] |binomial=[[Attagis gayi]]
|image=File:Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) - Papallacta - Ecuador.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I & Lesson, RP |authority-year=1831 |authority-not-original=
|range= Andes of South America south from Ecuador. 
|range-image=File:Attagis gayi map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
|''A. g. gayi''
|''A. g. latrelillii''
|''A. g. simonsi''
}}
}}

{{Species table/row
|name=[[White-bellied seedsnipe]] |binomial=[[Attagis malouinus]]
|image=File:Attagis malouinus 55242949.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Boddaert |authority-year=1783 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=  southwestern Argentina and Tierra del Fuego. 
|range-image=File:Attagis malouinus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/end}}



These are the larger of the four seedsnipe species.

==References==
{{reflist}}

* ''Shorebirds'' by Hayman, Marchant and Prater {{ISBN|0-395-60237-8}} <!-- also 0395379032.  0-87340-319-4 was removed -->

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[[Category:Attagis| ]]
[[Category:Bird genera]]
[[Category:Birds of the Andes]]
[[Category:Taxa named by René Lesson]]