20. EURYPTERUS. 



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lilac on the back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, the latter 

 being like the back ; median wing-coverts ashy, with a broad white 

 tip, preceded by a black bar, wider on the outer web ; greater 

 wing-coverts white, the outermost entirely so, the inner ones ashy 

 grey at the base, with a black transverse mark across the outer web 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black ; the secondaries 

 pure white, the outer ones with a sub-terminal black band or a black 

 mark on the outer web ; tho inner secondaries with a grey base and 

 a black sub-terminal mark or band, the innermost secondaries like 

 the back ; upper tail-coverts and tail pure white ; crown of head 

 light brown like the back ; base of forehead and an indistinct eye- 

 brow isabelline white; lores, sides of face, and cheeks ashy brown; 

 throat white ; sides of neck and fore-neck ashy brown ; chest and 

 breast pale slaty grey, the feathers with whitish margins ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts pale vinous isabelline, the latter shading off 

 into white ; sides of body, under wing-coverts, and axillaries pure 

 white ; quills below black : " bill black ; feet pale yellow ; iris 

 light red, with a tinge of orange " (67. E. Shelley.) Total length 

 10 - 5 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 6-9, tail 2-9, tarsus 2*8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage, but smaller. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 6-7, tail 2*7, tarsus 2-55. 



Hal. From South-eastern Europe to Turkestan, Egypt, and 

 Nubia ; wintering in Southern Afghanistan and N.AV. India. 



a-d. 6 2 a d. 



sk. 

 e. 2 ad. s k- 



f,9- 6 2 ad. 



sk. 

 h. Ad. sk. 



i. 5 ad. sk. 



Jc, I. 6 2 ad. sk. 



m. 2 & &- sk. 



w. Ad. sk. 

 o, p. Ad. sk. 

 q. Iram, sk. 

 r, s. 6 2 ad. 



sk. 

 t. 2 ad. sk. 



u, v. 6 2 ad. 



sk. 

 to. 2 ad. sk. 



x. 6 ad. sk. 



//, ;. Ad. sk. 

 a'. Ad. sk. 



Egypt, Feb. (G. E. Shelley). 



Alexandria, Dec. 14 (Stafford 



Allen). 

 Damietta, Feb. 21. 



Suakin. 



Ilor Tamanib, Nubia (J. K. 

 Lord) . 



Marshes of Babylonia (Com- 

 mander Jones). 



Shiraz Lake, S. Persia, June 8. 



Turkestan (Russow). 

 Kashgar (I)r. Belleiv). 

 India (W. Ewer). 

 Candahar, Dec, March. 



Jalk, Baluchistan, March 11. 



Sindh, Jan. (A. 0. H.). 



Cuniba, Upper Sind, Jan. (A. 



O. II.). 

 Manchur Lake, Feb. 9 (A. O. 



H.). 

 Loodiana ( Griffith). 

 Sambhur Lake (A'. M. Adam). 



Seebohm ColL 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Captain Shelley [C.]. 



Captain R. H. Penton 



(P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



India Museum. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.l. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Colonel Swinhoe [P.]. 



W. T. Blauford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



