84 CEDICNEMID^. OTIDID^. 



1. Etawah, 15th March. Hume Coll. 



3. Etawah. Hume Coll. 



1. Allahabad. Hume Coll. 



2 Allahabad. Hume Coll. 



1. Allahabad, 14th March. Hume Coll. 



2. Sau^or, C. Prov., 9th July. Hume Coll. 

 1, Pegu, 1st May {K W. Owes). Hume Coll. 



Genus ORTHORHAUIPHUS, Salvad. 



Orthorhamphus magnirostris ( F.). 



CEdicnemus reeur^-irostris apud Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ivii. 



fig. 1 (1845-54). 

 Esacus magnirostris, Gmdd, Handb. Birds Ausfr. ii. p. 213 (1865) ; 



Oates ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 334 (18!^»0). 

 Q3dicnemus magnirostris, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce , p. 89 



(1887). 

 Orthorhamphus maj^uirostris. Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 22 



(1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 173 (1899). 



The eggs of the Thick-billed Stone-Curlew are larger than those 

 of Esacus recurvirostris, and may, perhaps, be said to have a rather 

 paler ground-colour, but the eggs of the two species are hardly 

 separable. Five examples measure from 2-27 to 2-57 iu length, 

 and from 1-6 to 1-75 in breadth, 



1. Little Coco Island, Andamans, Hume Coll. 



24th March {A. 0. Hume). 



1. Corbyu's Cove, Port Blair, Hume Coll. 



Andamans, loth April (J. 

 Wood-Mason). 



2. Troughton, N.W. Australia, Lieut. G. Oliver [P.]. 



Julv. 

 1. Cape York [Gould). Gould Coll. 



Sub-Order TIDES. 

 Family OTIDIDiE. 



The eggs of the Bustards vary considerably with regard to shape, 

 colour, and amount of gloss. They are double-spotted, but the mark- 

 ings are faint, hazy, and ill-defined. The shell is strong, smooth, 

 and pitted with numerous pores. 



Genus OTIS, Linn. 

 Otis tarda, Linn. 



Otis tarda, Thien. Fortpjlayiz. ges. Fog. tab. Ivi. tig. \, a-c (1845-54); 

 Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 45. tig. 1 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, 

 Eq(is of Brit. Birds, i. p. 285, pi. Ixxiii. fig. i (185(3) ; Saunders, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 384 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 369 (1873) ; Dunford, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 34 ; Hume ^ Marsh. Ga>ne Birds Ind. i. p. 1 (1879) : 

 Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 581, pi. 22 (1884) ; id. Eggs of Brit. ■ 



