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smaller, it is very similar to the Oyster-catcher in form, as 

 well as in habits. There being- no other species known, it is 

 unnecessary to repeat here those particulars which have been 

 given in the generic character. The tongue is ten twelfths 

 of an inch long ; the oesophagus four inches, with an average 

 diameter of three twelfths ; the stomach one inch ; the intes- 

 tine eighteen inches ; the coeca nearly two inches. On the tarsus 

 are twenty-five scutella, on the first toe six, on the second 

 eighteen, on the third twenty-six, on the fourth twenty-two. 



The bill is black, the base of the lower mandible tinged 

 with red, the throat pale flesh-colour ; the iris brown, the 

 feet orange, the claws black. The general colour of the 

 upper parts is dark brown, glossed with green and purple, 

 the feathers edged with pale brown, the fore part and sides 

 of the head brownish-white, spotted with black. The throat 

 is white ; a band on each side from the lower mandible, the 

 side of the head behind the ear-coverts, and the fore part of 

 the neck black, the feathers slightly edged with whitish; 

 the rest of the lower parts pure white, as are the hind part of 

 the back and the upper tail-coverts, some of the rump 

 feathers, however, being black. The tail is white at the 

 base, brownish-black towards the end, edged externally with 

 light brown, the outer Aveb of the outer and the tips of all 

 excepting the two middle white. The primary quills and 

 coverts are brownish-black, the secondaries more brown ; all 

 in their lower part, the outer secondaries at their extremities, 

 and the shafts of the primaries white, of which colour also 

 are the tips of the secondary coverts, and the tertiaries or nu- 

 merals, together with some of the smaller wing coverts. 



Length to end of tail 9£ inches; extent of wings 18-f-; 

 bill along the ridge \\, along the edge of lower mandible } °; 

 wing from flexure 6 j 4 2 ; tail 2^; tarsus 1^; first toe j 3 2 , 

 its claw ^ ; second toe x 3 2 , its claw x \ ; third toe J 2 , its 

 claw ! 3 2 ; fourth toe ,» a , its claw ; 2 2 . 



Female. — The female differs only in having the black 

 parts more tinged with brown. 



Len°th to end of tail 9f inches ; extent of wings 18| ; 

 bill alon°" the ridge 1^, along the edge of lower mandible 1. 



