352 TRINGIN Z&. 
The Curlew is a not uncommon cold weather visitant to suit- 
able localities throughout the region ; it is much more common on 
the sea-coast than it is inland,-where it only affects the larger 
jheels. 
Numenius pheopus, Zn. 
878.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 684; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 16; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 429; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 247. 
THE WHIMBREL. 
Length, 16 to 18; expanse, 29; wing, 9°5 to 10; tail, 375; 
bill at front, 3:0 to 3°5. 
Bill dusky, reddish at base; irides brown; legs dark bluish- 
rey. 
F Forehead and crown cinereous-brown, the latter divided by a 
longitudinal pale streak ; over each eye a broad streak of white 
mixed with brown ; sides of the head, neck, and breast, pale-ashy 
with brown streaks ; upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts deep 
brown, the feathers with pale edgings; lower back white; rump 
white, barred with ashy-brown ; tail cinereous brown with dark 
oblique bars; abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the flanks 
barred with brown. 
The Whimbrel is common all along the sea-coast during the 
cold season ; it is much more rare inland. 
SuB-FAMILY, Tringine. 
Bill short or moderate, soft, and somewhat flexible, occasionally 
dilated or curved ; wings long; tail short; legs moderate, short ; 
the toes usually divided to the base, or with a very rudimentary 
web. 
Genus, Philomachus, Mehring. 
Bill, wings, and tail, as in Zvringa; tarsus somewhat more 
lengthened ; the outer-toe joined to the middle one by a short 
web. 
Philomachus pugnax, Zzn. 
880.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 687; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 17; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 429; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 248 ; 
Machetes pugnax, Lin. ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 
THE RUvrF. 
Length, 12 to 13 ; wing, 7°25 ; expanse, 22°5 ; tail, 2°5 ; tarsus, 
2; bill at front, 13; weight, 6 oz. 
In winter plumage, the male has the upper plumage variable, 
generally rich brown, with black central spots, and reddish or 
whitish edges, the head and neck usually somewhat paler; the 
