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ESACIN.E. 



broad black tip, except the outermost feather, which is white at the 

 base and more broadly tipped with black ; bill black, greenish at the 

 base J irides yellow ; legs yellow. 



Length. — 20 inches, wing 10'5, tail 4* 37, tarsus o*5, bill at front 

 3, at gape 3-75. 



Hah. — Nearly throughout India, along the sea coast and banks of 

 large rivers. From the stomach of a specimen got in the Kurrachee 

 harbour ten calling crabs {Gelasimus amndipes) were extracted. 



Gen. (Edicnemus— <^?". 



Bill longer than the head, straight and slightly depressed at the base ; 

 culmen raised near the point ; mandible angulated beneath ; nostrils 

 in the middle of the bill in a longitudinal slit; toes three; tail 

 OTaduated. 



CEdicnemus crepitans, Tem. ; P. E. 919 j Gould. B, E. pi. 288 ; 

 Jerd. n. luJ.iii.p. 054, No. 859; Str. F. i. 232 ; Murray, Hdhk., ZooL, 

 §T.., Sind, p. 212. CEdicnemus scolopax, S. G. Guc/.—The Stone Plover 

 or Bastard Floriken. 



Lores white, with a few brown spots ; chin and throat white ; a 

 distinct narrow raoustachial stripe from the base of the lower mandible ; 

 head, neck, back, scapulars and upper tail-coverts reddish ashy, each 

 feather with a mesial dusky streaky breast the same as the back j belly 

 white ; under tail-coverts reddish ashy ; tail white basally, all the feathers 

 except the middle ones tipped with black; thigh-coverts white ; pri- 

 maries black, the first three quills with a patch of white at their 

 terminal third, and the last three white basally and at tip with a sub- 

 terminal dark band ; edges of the greater wing-coverts white, forming 

 a wing band. 



