Attagis
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{automatic taxobox
| taxon = Attagis
| image = AttagisChimborazensisSmit.jpg
| authority = Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. & Lesson, RP, 1831
| type_species = Attagis gayi{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=58 |title= Thinocoridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}}
| type_species_authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Lesson, 1831
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
}}
Attagis is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.
These birds look superficially like partridges 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 Saint-Hilaire and René Lesson in 1831 with the rufous-bellied seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) as the type species.{{ 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 }}{{ 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 }} The name Attagis is the word used for a game bird in Ancient Greek texts. It probably referred to the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus).{{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] }}
Species
{{Species table |genus=Attagis |authority-name=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. & 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=
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}}
{{Species table/end}}
These are the larger of the four seedsnipe species.
References
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- Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater {{ISBN|0-395-60237-8}}
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