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inch, chiefly on the outer webs ; tail-feathers brown in the centres 

 and on the inner webs, chiefly whitish on the outer webs ; under 

 ■wing-coverts smoke-brown : bill vermilion to deep orange-yellow 

 on the upper mandible, the under mandible paler yellow, especially 

 towards the extremity : " irides hrown" (Shelley) ; tarsi and toes 

 vermilion, di-yiug orange-yellow. Tolal length 17 inches, culmen 3, 

 genys 4, wing about 14, tail 5-25, tarsus I'l, middle toe with 

 claw l-l. 



Adult female. Similar, but smaller; culmen 2-5, genys '&!, 

 wing 13, tail 5, tarsus 1. 



Adult in winter. Similar, but with an ill-defined band of dull 

 white streaked with brown on the nape ; the upper primaries, when 

 new, are edged with brownish white, which soon wears off. 



Immature. Like the above, but the forehead a trifle streaked 

 with grey ; the bill ochraceous yellow at the base and blackish on 

 the anterior half. 



Young. Similar, but duller brown above, and with greyish tips 

 to the feathers of the mantle and rectrices. 



Hah, Coast and rivers of West Africa from Senegal to Damara- 

 land ; across to the East side and along it ; throughout the Lake 

 Regions and the Kile sj'stem down to Damietta ; also the Red Sea. 



a-c. d ad. sk Egvpt (G. E. S.). Shellev Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Egypt (G. E. A'.). H. Saunders Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Damietta, Egypt (FiUpponi). Shelley Coll. 



f,g. O ad.sk. Tani, Soudan," April 1885. Capt.VV. Veroer [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. 5th Cataract, Nile. F. Galton, Esq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. ; k. Juv. Suakin, lied Sea. Capt. li. H. Penton 



sk. _ ^ [P.]. 



I, m. (j' 5 ad.; Upper Shire, Nvasalaud, Fub. H. H. Johnston, C.B. 



n. Imni. sk. {A. Whijte). ' [P.]. 



(>. Ad. sk. Lower Sliir6 Vallev [Sir J. Livingstone Exped. 



Kirk), 



jy, q. Ad. sk. Niger liiver. Mrs. Heywood [P.]. 



5. Rhynchops albicoUis. 



? Rhynchops niadra-patanus, J. li. Forster, Indische Zool. p. 42 

 (1781 : nomen nudum). 



Rhvnrhops albicoUis, <S'«-«i«s. ^4h. /« Mmnq. p. 360(1838); Gray, 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 656, pi. 181 (1846) ; Blijth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 p. 290 (1859) ; Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 773 (1856; ; Irbij, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 246 (Oudli and Kumaon) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal pres. 

 Hodys. p. 78(1863); ScJil. Mus. P.-Bas, Sterna;, p. 40(1863); 

 Jerd. B. India, iii. p. 847 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 124, 

 no. lloaS (1871); Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 286 (1873: Sind) ; Adam, 

 op. cit. ii. p. 440(1874: Rajmehal, Ganges); Hunw, op. cit. iii. 

 p. 193 (1875: Upper Pegu); id. Nests ^- Eggs hid. B. p. 656 

 (1875) ; Bbjth .V Wold. B.Burm. p. 164 (1875) ; Butler, Str. F. iv. 

 p. 32 (1876: N. Gnzenit) ; A.Anderson, F. Z. S. 1877, p. 807 

 (nestlings) ; If. Ramsay, Ihis, 1877, p. 472 (Sittang River) ; Huyne 

 iS- Davison, Sfr. F. vi. p. 493 (1878) ; Baridson S,- Wenden, op. cit. 

 vii. p. 93 (1878 : Peccan) ; Hume, t. c. p. 99 (Oodevpore) ; V. Ball, 

 t. r. p. 233: ,7. R. Cripps, I. c. p. 314 (E. Bengal)'; Hume, op. cit. 



