626 SCOLOPACIDvE. 



large brown spots on the dorsal feathers ; lower plumage more uniform rufous, 

 with a little white on the edges of the feathers of the abdomen and some 

 irregular brown streaks on the flanks and under tail coverts ; wing 

 coverts, secondaries and tertiaries greyish brown bordered with white ; pri- 

 maries brown with the shafts white; tail brown, transversely banded with 

 white. 



Bill black, turning to plumbeous at base ; irides dark brown ; legs and 

 toes dark plumbeous. 



Length. 13-5 inches; tail 2-5 to 2*9; wing 6-8 to 7; tarsus 2-05; bill from 

 gape 2 -9 to 3-25. 



Hal. Burmah, where it was procured at Rangoon and in Pegu. 



Gen. Limosa, Brus. 



Bill sub-curved at the tip, inclined upwards; ist quill longest; outer toe 

 united to the middle as far as the first joint ; tibia bare for more than two- 

 thirds its length ; tarsi long ; hind toe half the length of the outermost. 



1311. Limosa segOCephala (Linn.'), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 681 ; 

 Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 211 ; Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 155 ; Hume, Sir. F. vii. 

 p. 356; Legge* B. Ceylon, p. 832; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. 

 p. 409, pi. ; Oates, Str. F.x.p. 239; Murray, Vert. Zool. Smd,p.24$-, 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 409. The BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 



In winter plumage, the entire head, back of the neck, back, scapulars and 

 breast pale earthy grey, darker on the scapulars and back, where each feather 

 is dark shafted ; superciliary stripe, chin, throat, also the abdomen and under 

 tail coverts white ; rump white, the feathers of the upper tail coverts black for 

 their terminal half ; tail white at the base, the terminal two-thirds tipped black, 

 the outer feathers for their terminal third only, and all more or less narrowly 

 tipped white ; primaries and their coverts dusky brown, the inner primaries 

 basally white, and all white on their inner webs; secondaries dusky terminally, 

 white basally, arid some of the tertials with their outer webs white ; greater 

 wing coverts broadly edged with white, also some of the hinder primary 

 coverts ; shoulder of wing dusky brown, also the lower back ; neck in front 

 and flanks greyish white. 



Length \6 to 18 inches; wing 775 to 875 ; tail 3-12 to 3'5 ; bill at front 

 37 to 4-5, of a dull reddish colour at base and dusky at the tip; legs dusky 

 greenish ; irides dark brown, 



Hab. Nearly throughout India and Ceylon during winter. Rare in 

 Southern India, the Concan and the Deccan. Common in Kutch, Kattiawar 

 and Rajputana, also in Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan. In Sind this 



