376 AVES. 



Cursorius Asiaticus. — The Coromandel Courier. Plate xxx. fig. 2. Crown 

 of the head, neck, breast, and abdomen, bright chestnut ; wings, back, and 

 tail-coverts, yellow fawn-colour ; crissura and tail dull white ; venter with 

 a black longitudinal streak ; a black streak reaches from the base of the bill 

 across the eyes, to the nape of the neck, over which is another streak ot 

 white ; bill gray ; quills black ; legs and feet pale yellow-green. Eight inches 

 long. Inhabits Coromandel. 



ORDER XIII.— GRALLATORES. 



Bill varied in its form ; generally straight, in the shape of an elongated 

 cone, compressed, and sometimes, though seldom, depressed} legs long, 

 slender, frequently naked above the knee ; feet with three toes before and 

 one behind ; the hallux articulated, on a level with the anterior toes j some- 

 times a little higher. 



Sub-Division I.— Having three toes only. 



Genm 1.— GEDICNEMUS.— TeOTmineA;. 



Generic Character. — Bill somewhat longer than the head, straight, robust, 

 compressed at the point, with a carinated ridge ; lower mandible forming an 

 angle with the upper one ; nostrils cleft longitudinally, and open in front, 

 situated in the middle of the bill ; legs long and slender ; tarsus with a dis- 

 tinct heel ; feet with three anterior toes only, united as far as the second 

 joint by a membrane, which extends along the toes ; tail cuneiform. 



CEdicnemtis crepitans. — Common Thick-Knee. Plate xlvii*. fig. 6. Head, 

 neck, and upper parts of the body, pale tawny brown ; under parts the same, 

 but paler; venter, and crissum, cream-yellow j the whole plumage with 

 longitudinal brown streaks down the middle of each feather j a pale streak 

 both above and below the eyes; bill yellow at the base, black at the tip; 

 quills black ; legs yellow'; claws black. Sixteen inches long. Inhabits En- 

 rope. 



Genus 2.— CALIDRIS llliger. 



Generic Character. — Bill of medium size, slender, straight, soft, and flexi- 

 ble throughout, compressed from the base to the point, depressed towards 

 the point, which is flattened and obtuse ; nostrils lateral, and longitudinally 

 cleft; legs slender, tarsus longer than the foot; feet with three anterior 

 toes, divided nearly from the base ; wings of medium size, the first quill the 

 longest. 



Calidris asenaria Sauderling. Plate xli. fig. 4. Described, vol. iii p. 



348. 



Gemts 3— FALCINELLUa—CMwr. 



Generic Character. — Bill arcuated, soft, compressed throughout, depressed 

 at the point, with an elongated nasal furrow ; nostrils basal, lateral, linear ; 

 tarsus longer than the middle toe ; feet with three anterior toes only. 



Fidcinellus pygmeeus."~-Figmy Curlew. Plate xl*. fig. 7. Described, vol. 

 iii. p. 313. 



