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spots at the ends of the feathers, the feathers of the chest also 

 margined with whit.y-brown. 



Hah. Europe generally, as far north as Southern Sweden, as far 

 east as Mongolia and China ; wintering in Africa and the Indian 

 Peninsula. 



a. Ad. St. 



b, c. Ad. et imm. 

 sk. 



d. Juv. sk. 

 €. S fid. sk. 



f. Juv. sk. 



g. 2 ad. sk. 



h. (S iram. sk. 

 i. c? ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. 

 /. Ad.sk. 

 m,. 2 ad. ; n. 



Jut. sk. 

 o. Ad.sk. 

 p. 2 imm. sk. 



Egypt. 



Egypt. 



Cape Colony. 



Potchefstroom, Transvaal, June 



12 ( T. Ayres). 

 Fao, Persian Gulf, Sept. 5. 



River ludus, near Kusmore, 



Sind, Dec. 13 {A. O. H.). 

 Sukkur, Sind, Dec. 16 {A. O.H.). 

 Sehwan, Sind, Jan. 24 (A. O. 



H.). 

 Sirza district, Punjab, June. 

 Eastern Dhoon {Col. Thelivall). 

 Ne])al Valley, Nov. 29 {J. 



Scully). 

 Nepal. 

 Mouth of the Amoor River, 



Sept. 3 (C. Dorries). 



Capt. Colin Campbell 



fp.]. 

 G. TumbuU, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 Gurney Coll. 



W. D. Gumming, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Hume CoU. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hodgson Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Type. 

 A. oscitans. 

 A. oscitans. 

 A. oscitans. 

 A. oscitans. 



A. oscitans. 

 A. oscitans. 

 A. lamelUgerus. 



5. ANASTOMUS. 



Auastomus, Bonn. Enc. Meth., Oni. p. xciii (1790) . 

 Hians, Lacep. Mem. List. Pan's, iii. p. 517 (1801) . . 

 Rhvnchochasme, Hervi. Ohs. Zool. p. 156 (1804) . . 



Empharis, Itafinesque, Analyse, p. 70 (1815) 



Chfpnorhamphe, Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. vni. p. 51 



(1817) •••• 



Clipuorbampbus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 562 (1848) . . 

 Hiator, Beichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xii (1852-53) . . 

 Range. Africa. Madagascar. India. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. General plumage white or ashy-grey ; scapulars, 



quills, and tail blark ; no lanceolate prolongation 

 of the shafts of the breast-feathers into horn- 

 like appenrlases • ■ ■ oscitans, p. 



b. General plumage block, with horny elongations 



to the shafts of the breast-feathers lamelUgerus, p. 308. 



1. Anastomus oscitans. 



Le Bec-Ouvert de Pondicberv, D'Aubent- PI Enl. viii. pi. 932. 



Le Bec-Ouvert, Buff. Hist. Nut. Ois. vii. p. 409 (17^0). 



Le Bec-Ouvert blanc des Indes, Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient, li. p. 129, 



pi. 122 (1782). 

 Ardea oscitans, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 55 (1783). 



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