2. H.XHMOPUS. Ill 



?■ Skull. England John Ray, Esq. [P.]. 



ml. Sternum. England. G. Ingall, Esq. [P.]. 



»'. Bones of Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 trunk. [P.]. 



2. Hsematopus osculans. 



ILematopus kypoleuca, Pall. Zooyr. Boss.-Asiat. ii. p. 129 (1811, pt.: 



Kamtchatka ; Kurile Isl.). 

 II;euiatopu< ostralegus (nee L.), Middend. Seise Sibir., Zool.u. p. 213 



(1851: Gt. Shantar rsl., Aug.) ; Casein, Pr. Acad. Nat. Set. Phil. 



1858, p. 19(1 (Japan); Schn-nck, Reis. Amurl. p. 413 (1859: 



Ussuri River : Amur River); Swinh. Ibis, ISliO, p. 63 ; id. Ibis, 



I861,p.261 (TaJienBay),p.342(Tako* : Pelrin); Przew. JPutesch. 



Ussuri, no. 157 (1870)'; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 154 (1875: Arakan) ; 



Oates, //. Brit. Burm, ii. p. 377 (1883). 

 ILvmatopus longirostria (nee V.), Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 406 (Ape's 



Hill Creek, Formosa) ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 310. 

 Hffimatopua osculans, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 405 ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. 



Ver. Wien, 1872, Extraheft, p. 6; Swinh. Ibis, 1874, p. 426 



(Chefoo); id. Ibis, 1875, pp. 129, 453 (Hakodadi); Taez. Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. Franco, i. p. 249 (1876) ; David # Oast. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 432 (1877 : N. China, especially near Chefoo) ; Blakist. fy Fryer, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 219 (Yezo, Yokohama ): Seehohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 26 

 (Yokohama) ; Blakist. fy Pn/er. Trans. As. Soc. viii. p. 193 (1880) ; 

 iid. op. cit. x. p. 109 (1882) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, viii. 

 p. 339 (1883) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Jap. p. 11 (1884 : Japan 

 generally); Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, pp. 100, 138 (1885 : 

 Kamtchatka); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 159 (Corea); Seebohm, 

 Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 303 (1888) ; id. B. Japan. Emp. p. 319 

 (1890 : Kurile Isl. ; Yezo ; Yokohama) : Sti/an, Ibis, 1891, pp. 330, 

 504 (Lower Yangtse, winter) ; Campbell, Ibis, 1892, p. 246 (Corea); 

 De La Touche, t.c. p. 497 (Foochow and Swatow). 

 Hsematopus ostralegus osculans, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 

 p. 100 (1885). 



Adult male. Similar to H. ostralegus, but with a decidedly longer 

 bill, and distinguished by the white pattern of the primary quills, 

 the shafts of which arc white towards the ends, as in H. ostralegus, 

 but the white begins to extend on to the outer web of the quill only 

 from the si.vth onwards. The difference of the white occurring on 

 the second quill is not constant, as we have seen European birds 

 which have tho first primary entirely dark on the inner web, as in 

 H. oscidans : " bill bright orange-red ; legs tine pink, with pale 

 brownish claws ; iris crimson, eyelid bright orange-red " (R. 

 Swinlioe). Total length 18 inches, culmen 3-S, wing 10 - 3, tail 4-2, 

 tarsus 1"85. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of //. ostralegus, but dis- 

 tinguished by the white markings on the quills, the white extending 

 on to the outer web from the white shaft-streak only from the sixth 

 quill onwards. The first primary has no white on the inner web. 

 Total length 18 inches, culmen 37, wing 10-4, tail 4-2, tarsus 2. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the black feathers mar- 

 gined with white, and in having a white patch across the throat, 

 though Dr. Stejneger states that the young birds procured by him in 



