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Subfamily VII. IBIDORHYNCII1N M. 



40. IBIDORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 



lbidorhynchus, J /</"r*, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 174 I. struthersi. 



Clorhynchus, Jf<»/;/s. J. A. S. Beny. iv. p. 701 (1835) . . I. struthersi. 



Falcirostra, Severtz. Tvrkest. Jevotn. p. 146 (1873) .... I. struthersi. 



"Range. The mountain streams of the Himalayan Region to 

 Central Asia and eastwards to China. 



1. Ibidorhynchus struthersi. 



lbidorhynchus struthersi, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 174 (Himalaya 

 fitts.)"; Gould, Cat. B. Himal. Mts. pi. lxxix. (1832) ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. fyc. Nepal pre*. Hodgs. p. 138 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 568 (1847); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 265 (1849: 

 Bhotan; Nepal); Beichenb. Grail, tab. xevi. fig. 1044 (1850); 

 Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 61 (1856) ; Jerd. U. Ind. iii. p. 685 (1864) 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 41. no. 10238 (1871) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 411 (near Pekin) ; Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xl. p. 400 (1871), 

 xli. p. 72 (1872 : Sihhim) : Brooks, t. c. p. 86 (Cashmere) ; id. 

 Str. F. iii. p. 257 (1875: Derali, Bha^irati Valley) ; Dresser, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 329 (Turkestan) ; David fy Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 466, pi. 118 

 (1877) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 51 (1878: Koko-nor 

 Mts., Nov. ; Kan-su Mts.) ; Hume, Str. I', viii. p. 112 (1879), xi. 

 p. 323 (1888 : Manipur) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 314 

 (1888); id. Ibis, 1891, p. 378 (Western Szechuen, 14,000 ft.); 

 Beret, fy Bianchi, Ares Gan-m. p. 4 (1891) ; Oust. N. Arch. Mas. 

 (3) vi. p. 89 (1894: Tatsien-lou). 



Clorhynchus strophiatus, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. iv. p. 701 (1835) ; 

 id. Icon, ined. in Brit. Mus., Grail, pis. 82, 82 a, 99, App. pi. 46, 

 no. 576; id. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844). 



Ardea P, Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 344 (between Takoo & Pekin). 



Numenius struthersi, Schl, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 102 (1864 : 

 Nepal). 



Falcirostra kaufmanni, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 69, 146, pi. x. 

 tigs. 1,2(1873). 



Falcirostra longipes, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 69, 147 (1873). 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, a little clearer grey on 

 the wing-coverts : bastard-wing blackish ; primary-coverts blackish ; 

 quills dusky grey, blackish at the ends, the inner primaries with a 

 round sub-terminal spot of white, increasing in extent towards the 

 secondaries, the outermost of which have white bases, forming a 

 large wing-patch ; remainder of secondaries ashy grey, with more 

 or less white toyvards the base of the inner web ; innermost long 

 secondaries like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts clearer grey than the mantle, the central coverts blackish 

 with grey tips, the others grey externally ; tail-feathers ashy broyvn, 

 with wavy bars of dusky blackish, all but the centre feathers with 

 .i large black spot at the ends, the external one barred with black 

 and white on the outer web onlv, and the bars on the inner wch 



