150 SCOLOPACID^. 



waters in great numbers during winter; also along the banks of the Indus and 

 Punjab rivers, and on all large inland sheets of water. 



Gen. Ibidorhynchus,— V/gors. 



Bill long, slender, well curved, scarcely dilated at tip, upper mandible 

 grooved ; tomise inflexed and denticulated ; nostrils wide, linear, basal ; wings 

 long, ist quill longest; tail short, of i2 feathers; tarsi short, bare ; hind toe 

 wanting. 



184. Ibidorhynchus Struthersii {Vigors), GouJd, Cent. 



Him. B. pi. 19 ; Hodgs., J. A. S. B. iv. p. 459 ; Jerd., B. hid. iii. p. 685, 

 No. 879; Hu?7ie, Str. F. iii. p. 257 ; Murray, Avif. Brit, hid. \\.y>.^'},\. 

 No. 1315. Clorhynchus strophiatus, Hodgs., y. A. S. B. iv. p. 761. — The 

 Red-billed Curlew. 



Whole head as far as the eyes black, the feathers of the forehead edged 

 with greyish white ; rest of the upper plumage, including the nape, wings 

 and tail bluish ashy ; winglet and primaries slaty blue ; a bar of white across 

 the wings ; upper tail coverts nearly ashy brown ; tail with the feathers barred 

 with dusky black, all except the two central feathers largely tipped with 

 black ; outer web of outermost feather white ; chin and throat black ; neck 

 ashy ; a gorget of black on the breast ; under surface of body, under wing 

 and tail coverts white. 



Bill deep crimson ; irides red ; legs blood red. {jferd.) 



Length. — i6'S inches ; wing 9*25 ; tail 4*5 ; tarsus 2*2 ; bill 375. 



Hab. — The Himalayas, on the banks of sandy streams in Nepaul and in 

 Sikkim on the Great Runjeet ; also in Ladak. 



Sub-Family RECURVIROSTRIN^.— .5/. 



Nostrils narrow, membranous ; tail short and rounded ; tarsi long, covered 

 with reticulated scales ; bill long and slender, recurved in one genus. 



Gen Recurvirostra.— z?«w. 



Bill long, thin, the keel flattened, the tips turned upwards ; toes united by 

 webs; hind toe short. 



185. Recurvirostra avocetta {Linn.), Bodd.,P. E.iii\ Gould, 



B. Eur. pi. 289; Jerd., B. hid. iii. p 248 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool.,3fc., Sind, 

 p. 222; id.. Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 258 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 631, 

 No. 1 3 16. — The AvocET, Scooper or Crooked-Bill. 



Forehead in some specimens faintly white, otherwise black ; crown, lores, 

 nape and back of the neck black ; scapulars, lesser wing coverts and upper 

 tertials black ; primaries black, some of the inner ones with their inner webs 

 white ; secondaries and some of the tertials white ; chin, throat, neck in front, 

 lower neck behind, lower back, rump, upper tail coverts and entire under 

 surface white. 



