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and tertials pale brown, the feathers distinctly dark-shafted ; neck in front 

 white, in some specimens obtained in April greyish brown ; the breast ashy, 

 contrasting with the pure white of the rest of the under surface; primaries 

 black, the first three quills with a patch of white on their terminal thirds, and 

 the last three basally and at tip white, with a subterminal black band ; lesser 

 wing coverts dark brown ; median and greater coverts pale greyish brown, 

 the latter white tipped ; secondaries dark brown, their inner webs white ; tail 

 pale brown at base, with a subterminal white band and a 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 ; irides yellow ; legs yellow. 

 Length. 20 inches ; wing 10*5 ; tail 4-37 ; tarsus 3-5 ; bill at front 3, at gape 



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Hab. 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 (Gelasimtu annulipes) were extracted. JE. magnirostris^ an 

 Australian species, is said to have occurred in the Andaman Islands and 

 probably also occurs along the Burmese sea coast. There is however no 

 precise information. It is distinguished from this species by being a little 

 larger, and by the col our of the sixth primary being all white with only a 

 brown band on the outer web. 



Gen. CEdicnemTis.Cwz;. 



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 graduated. 



CEdicnemus crepitans. 



