ACTITIS. 619 



same, broadly tipped with white, forming an oblique double bar across the 

 wing ; tertiaries black, with pale edges ; primaries and tip of tail black ; legs 

 and toes dingy yellow. 



Hab. Europe and Asia. In India only found as yet in Bengal along the 

 coast. 



Sub-Family, TOTANINyE. SAND-PIPERS. 



Bill grooved as far as, or beyond, the middle, moderately long, the tip hard 

 and pointed ; nostrils narrow ; hind toe long and slender, barely reaching the 

 the ground. 



Gen. ActitiS. HL 



Groove of the bill extending quite to the tip; ist quill of wing longest. 



1300. Actitis hypoleucos (*.) Jerd., B. ind. ii\. p. 699, No. 



893 ; Blyth % B. Burm. p. 155 ; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 253. Tringa 

 hypoleucos, Linn., Syst. Nat. I. p. 250. Tringoides hypoleucos, Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs Ind. B. p. 588 ; id., Sir. F. ii. p. 299; iii. p. 183; Salvad., Ucc. 

 Born. p. 326; Hume, Str. F. viii. p, 113 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 867 ; Oates, 

 Str. F. x. p. 241. Totanus hypoleucos, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 127; 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 197. The COMMON SAND-PIPER. 



Forehead, crown, nape and back of the head ashy brown, streaked with 

 dark narrow lines ; supercilium white, also the orbital ring, chin and throat ; 

 sides of the face pale ashy with brown streaks ; middle of the breast white, 

 the sides mottled or streaked with brown, or entirely brown; back, scapulars, 

 tertiaries and lesser wing coverts ashy brown, glossed with green, and with 

 fine transverse dark lines ; greater wing coverts ashy brown, tipped with white, 

 which with the white bases of the secondaries form a conspicuous wing band ; 

 primaries and their coverts dark brown, the latter tipped with white, and 

 all, except the first primary, and sometimes the second also, with a large 

 white spot on their inner webs ; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts 

 ashy brown, with dark transverse bars ; four central feathers of the tail like 

 the back, the rest tipped with white and with dark spots along their edges ; 

 beneath white. Bill dusky ; irides brown ; legs pale green. 



Length. 7 to 8 inches ; wing 4/5 ; tail 2-4 ; tarsus 0^97 to I ; bill 0-97. 



Hab, Less common than the two preceding ; affects the sea coast as well 

 as lakes, &c., inland. Occurs throughout India, Burmah, Malacca, Ceylon, 

 &c. ; also Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan. 



1301. ActitiS OChrOpllS (Linn.\ Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 698, No. 892 ; 

 Blyth, B. Burm. p. 155 ; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 254. Tringa ocro- 

 phus, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 250. Totanus ochropus, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 183 ; 

 Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 135, pi. ; David et Oust, Ois. Chine, p. 465 ; Hume 

 and Vav., Str. F. vi. p. 462 ; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 862. Helodromas 



