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and Indian Oystercatchers : though I expect to find my views as to 

 the greater persistence of the white on the quills in Eastern birds 

 confirmed by further material. There is considerable variation in 

 the white shaft-markings and white quill-lining. In the adult 

 female, however, described from Wales, there is an absence of white 

 on the inner web of the first primary, as is usual in H. osculans ! 



Nestling. Clothed with down of a sandy-grey colour, not much 

 mottled with black, of which two lines run down each side of the 

 back, with a single narrow line down the rump to the tail, and a 

 lateral stripe along the lower flanks ; the head has some irregular 

 black stripes and patches ; throat dusky black ; remainder of under 

 surface of body white, as also the edge of the wing ; thighs dusky 

 blackish. As the bird increases in size the plumage becomes 

 darker, and is strongly barred with sandy-buff tips and edges to the 

 feathers, but the black dorsal patches are retained in full force for a 

 long time. 



Hah. Europe generally, extending south in winter to Egypt and 

 the Red Sea, eastwards to Central Asia, wintering in N.W. India. 



a. Pull. sk. 



b. Pull. sk. 



c. d. Ad. sk. 



e. c? ad. sk. 



/, g, h. Ad. sk. 



i. cJ ad. sk. 

 k. 2 ad.sk. 



I, m. <$ ; n. 2 



ad. sk. 

 o,p. 2 ad. sk. 

 q. 2 j uv - sk- 



r. Juv. sk. 



s. Juv. sk. 



t. Imm. sk. 

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 v. <5 juv. sk. 



w, x. $ ; y-a'. 



2 juv. sk. 

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sk. 

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 k'. Skeleton. 



Orkneys. 



Orkneys, June 26 (J. H. Dunn). 



St. Andrew's, N.B., Sept. (_R. G. 



W. E.). 

 Lincolnshire, Sept. 14. 



Romney Marsh, Kent, Sept. 



Paglmm, Sussex, Sept. 5. 

 Pagham, Sept. 20. 



S. Bride's, S. Wales, April. 



Bodo, Norway, May 7 (F. D. G.). 

 Heligoland, Sept. 26 {E. B. S.). 



Morocco. 



Suakin, Red Sea. 



Erzeroum (Hurt de Pavilion). 



River Volga, May. 



Fao, Persian Gulf, Oct. 15. 



Karachi, Sind, Feb. {A. O. H.). 



Karachi, Aug. (E. A. Butler). 

 Karachi, Feb., March (E. A. B.). 



Kutch, Jan. (F. Stoliczka). 

 Balacherry, Kathiawar, Oct. 15. 



Nepal. 



Patna. 

 England. 



Gould Coll. 



E. Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



J. H. Caton Haigh, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. R. B. Sharpe 



[P.]. 

 Dr. Giinther [P.]. 

 J. E. Harting, Esq. 



[P.] 

 Hon. W. Edwardes 



PP.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



F. Nicholson, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



J. E. Harting, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Surgeon-Capt. R. H. 



Penton [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 W. D. Camming, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Col. Hayes Lloyd 



[P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Pinwill Coll. 

 Purchased. 



