BIRDS OP NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 303 



Eurmorhynchus (emendation) C'uvier, R^gne Animal, 2d ed., i, 1829, 528. 

 Eurinorhyncus (emendation) Harting, Ibis, 1869, 427. 

 Eurinorinchus (emendation) Harting, Ibis, 1869, 427. 

 Eurinorincus (emendation) Harting, Ibis, 1869. 427. 

 Eurinoryncus (emendation) Harting, Ibis, 1869, 427. 

 Eurinorynchus (emendation) Pearson, Asiat. Researches, xix, 1836, 69. 

 Eurrhinoirhynchus (emendation) Sharpe, Zool. Record, xix, 1884, Aves, 2. • 

 Eurrhynorrhynchus (emendation) [Poliakow?] Messager Orn., vi, 1915, 260. 

 Eurynorhinchus (emendation) Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., v, 1842, 402. 

 Eurynorrhynchus (emendation) Saunders, Zool. Record, xiv, 1879, Aves, 1, 55. 

 Eurynorynchus (emendation) Reichenhach, Av. Syst., 1853, 24, xiii. 

 Euryrhynchus (emendation) Nitzsch, Observ. Avium Art. Caret. Comm., 1829, 18. 

 Urinorynrhus (emendation) Pearson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, v, 1836, 253. 



Small Eroliiiias (wing 94-102 mm.) resembling Pisohia but with 

 bill much broader than deep and with its terminal portion broadly 

 expanded. 



Bill about as long as head, the exposed culmen equal in length to 

 tarsus, between one-fourth and pne-fifth as long as wing, much 

 broader than deep, the distal third (approximately) expanded into 

 a broad, somewhat rhomboid or kite-shaped paddle or shovel, whose 

 width is equal to about half the length of exposed culmen; nasal 

 groove rather broad throughout, extending to base of expanded tip 

 of maxilla; mandible with a much narrower and less distmct lateral 

 groove; nostril sub-basal, narrowly oval or elliptical, its upper edge 

 somewhat operculate; malar antia obliquely truncate, slightly 

 anterior to loral antia, the mental antia broadly rounded, slightly 

 anterior to malar antia. Wing rather long, pointed, the longest 

 primary (outermost) exceedmg distal secondaries by more than one- 

 half the length of wing, and greatly exceeding the elongated, tapering, 

 but not acuminate tertials. Tail more than two-hfths as long as 

 wing, distinctly double-emarginate, the middle pair of rectrices 

 longer than the lateral pair, subacuminate; rectrices 12. Tarsus 

 about as long as exposed culmen, less than one-fifth as long as wing, 

 continuously scutellate anteriorly and posteriorly; naked portion of 

 tibia about as long as first two phalanges of middle toe, non-scuteUate 

 or with scutella indistinct; middle toe, with claw, shorter than tarsus, 

 the outer toe slightly shorter, the inner still shorter; claws narrow, 

 rather long, slightly curved; edge of toes finely serrate; no webs 

 between anterior toes. 



Coloration. — Not distinctive, resembling that of Pisohia ruficollis. 



Range. — jl^astern Asia. (Monotypic.) 



EURYNORHYNCHUS PYGMEUS ^Linnsus.) 

 SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Adult male iii summer. — Pileum dull cinnamon-rufous or hazel, 

 (nearly mikado brown or light russet), more or less deep, broadly 

 streaked v\-ith black; rest of head, together with throat and foreneck, 



