HIMANTOPIDZ. 361 
In winter, the crown, lores, back of neck, upper back, scapulars, 
and wing-coverts, cinereous-brown, darker on the shafts; super- 
cilium white ; sides of the head greyish-white ; lower back white ; 
primaries and their coverts dusky brown ; the secondaries white 
for the greater portion of their length; upper tail-coverts and 
tail barred with white and dark-brown ; throat white ; foreneck and 
breast greyish-white ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts white. 
During the cold season the Red Shank occurs more or less 
commonly throughout the whole region. 
Famity, Himantopide. 
Of black and white plumage, not changing in summer ; the 
legs very much lengthened ; bill long and very thin, and in one 
genus recurved. 
Grnus, Himantopus, Brisson. 
Bill long, twice the length of the head, very slender, somewhat 
rounded, pointed, channeled on the sides as far as the middle ; 
tip of the upper mandible very slightly bent over the under one ; 
nostrils lmear ; wings long, pointed, first quill longest, tail short, 
even, of twelve feathers; tibia bare for the greater part of its 
length ; legs very long, thin reticulated ; toes short ; outer-toe 
joined to the middle one by a broad web ; inner one with a_ very 
small web ; nails short, flat ; hind-toe wanting. 
Himantopus candidus, Bona. 
898.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 704; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 4380; H. intermedius, Blyth. ; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 258; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 
THE STILT. 
Gaj-pawn, Hin. 
Length, 14°5 to 15:5; expanse, 26 to 30; wing, 8°5 to 9; tail, 
3 ; tarsus, 4°5 to 5°5 ; bill at front, 2°75. 
Bill black, reddish at base ; irides blood-red ; fect lake-red. 
Back of the head black or dusky, more or less mixed with 
whitish, in some nearly all white, in others with only the nape 
black ; back and sides of neck grey ; interscapulars and wings 
glossy green-black; tail pale ash-grey; rest of the plumage, 
including the back and rump, pure white, sometimes tinged with 
rosy on the breast. 
The Stilt or Long-legs is common throughout the whole region, 
but only occurs during the cold weather in Guzerat and the 
Deccan. In Sind it appears to be a permanent resident, 
breeding freely in the Narra District during June. The eggs, 
four in number, are deposited on the bare ground; they are 
oval in shape, pinched in at one end; the ground color varies 
from olive-brown to greenish stone, and the markings consist of 
