610 SCOLOPACID/E. 



primaries, with white bars and wavy lines, and the tips margined with white, 

 the patterns showing through paler on the under side of the wing ; tail ashy 

 grey, with buff ocelli on both webs, and tipped with buff ; abdomen, vent and 

 under tail coverts white. The female has the lores, sides of the face, upper 

 breast and back of neck chestnut, the feathers edged whitish on the upper 

 breast ; back, scapulars and wing coverts, also the tertiaries, dark olive with 

 narrow, close, black striae, the outermost tertials white, otherwise as in the 

 male. Bill reddish brown ; irides deep brown ; legs and feet greenish. 



Length. 9 to 10 inches ; wing 4*9 to 5*2 ; tail 1-5 to 1*8 ; bill at front r8 

 to 2 inches. 



Hab. Sind, Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajputana, Central India, Punjab, N.-W. 

 Provinces, British Burmah and Ceylon. Breeds in Sind during May and June, 

 and in nearly all localities where it occurs. 



Gen. Limicola. 



Characters same as Rhynchcea ; bill broad and depressed. 



1288. Limicola platyrhyncha (Temm.), Salvad., Ucc. Bom. 



p. 322 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 3, pi. ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 461 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 113; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 896; Oates, Sir. F. x. 

 p. 240; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 387; Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 252. 

 Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm., Man d' Orn. p. 398 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 692, 

 No. 886; Blyth % B. Burm. p. 156. The BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



In winter, the crown of the head, back, scapulars and wing coverts are ashy 

 brown, tinged with rufous ; neck and cheeks white, spotted with brown ; 

 primaries and tail brown, the latter edged with pale reddish ashy ; lower parts 

 white ; the flanks, breast and under tail coverts tinged with rufous. In 

 summer dress the Broad-billed Sandpiper has the crown of the head brownish 

 black, varied with greyish ; the neck on the sides and in front greyish white, 

 with black spots, and tinged with buffy ; chin white, with a few dark spots ; 

 lower back black, with fulvous white or rufous margins to the feathers. 



Length. 6'$ to 675 inches ; wing 3-9 to 4-32 ; bill at front 1*27 to 1-37 ; 

 tarsi o'94 ; irides deep brown j legs and feet dusky black. 



Hab. The Indian Coast generally. Occurs commonly at Kurrachee and 

 along the Mekran Coast, also at Kutch and in Bengal. Recorded from 

 Arracan, also from Pegu, and Amherst in Tenasserim. Frequents sea-coasts 

 and tidal rivers. 



Sub-Family, TRINGIN;E, STINTS, &c. 



Bill rather long, flat and wide, keeled near the tip, somewhat flexible ; 

 nostrils in a groove, extending two-thirds the length of the bill ; wings long ; 

 toes divided or narrowly webbed. 



