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terminated with black, the chin and throat become pale ashy grey, and there 

 is a distinct fulvous orbital ring, the forehead and face become fulvescent, and 

 the inner primaries tipped with white. 



Length. lo inches; wing 5 to 5-2; bill at front 1-9 to 2, orange at the 

 base, the rest dusky or dark brown; tail 2 to 2*5 ; legs and feet pale orange ; 

 irides brown. 



Hal. Sind, the Mekran Coast, Kutch, Kattiawar, N. Guzerat, Northern 

 and Southern India, Burmah and Ceylon generally, affecting the sea coast, 

 creeks and channels during winter, found also in N.-E. Europe and New South 

 Wales. According to Jerdon it breeds in Northern Asia, and is extensively 

 distributed over Europe, Asia and Australia. 



Sub-Family, LIAIOSIN^:. GODWITS. 



Bill much lengthened, curved or straight from the base, or turned upwards ; 

 tail short and even; toes long, united at the base. 



Gen. Pseudoscolopax. 



Bill much lengthened, soft at the tip, straight or slightly turned upwards, 

 mostly of large size; a distinct web between the toes; lower part of tibia bare; 

 scapulars long; tail moderate. 



1310. Pseudoscolopax semipalmatus (Jerd.}, Swinh., P. z. 



,1863, p. 313; 1871, p. 407; David et Oust. is Chine ^. 474, pi. 121 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 112; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p. 395. 

 pi.; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 239; id. t B. Br. Burm. ii, p. 408. Macro- 

 ramphus semipalmatus (Jerd.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvii. p. 252; Jerd,, B. 

 Ind. iii. p. 679, No. 874 ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 484. The SNIPE-BILLED 

 GODWIT. 



Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, sides of the neck, back, scapulars and 

 tertiaries brown, each feather margined with greyish white ; lores brown ; 

 supercilium white ; sides of the head, chin, throat, foreneck and breast white, 

 densely marked with short brown streaks ; upper wing coverts dark brown, 

 broadly edged with white ; primary coverts brown; primaries brown, the tips 

 darker, the shafts white and the outer webs narrowly margined with white ; 

 secondaries brown, broadly margined with white and irregularly barred with 

 the same ; rump, upper tail coverts and tail white, broadly barred with brown ; 

 abdomen and vent white ; under tail coverts white, marked with V-shaped 

 brown marks ; sides of the body white, irregularly barred with brown ; under 

 wing coverts white; axillaries white, with a few irregular short brown 

 bars. 



In Summer, according to Messrs. David and Oustalet, the upper plumage is 

 bright rufous with brown streaks on the nape, lores and hind neck, and with 

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