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always from the sea-shore, and once in each case from Ceylon and 

 the Laccadives. 



Habits, fyc. The Sanderling has been found in India usually in 

 small flocks, associating with other waders, especially species of 

 ^Egialitis and Trinya. 



Genus EURYNORHYNCHUS, Nilsson, 1821. 



This curious little genus is easily recognized by its remarkable 

 bill, which is depressed throughout, and for nearly two-thirds of 

 its length is not much broader than high, but the terminal third of 

 both mandibles is expanded into a flat quadrilateral disk, bluntly 

 angulate at each side and at the end. The nostrils small and 

 basal. In other respects this genus resembles Tringa. 



A single migratory species, found in Eastern Asia and Alaska. 



1470. Eurynorhynchus pygmaeus. The Spoon-billed Stint. 



Platalea pygmaea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 231 (1766). 

 Eurynorhynchus griseus, NUBS. Orn. Suec. ii. p. 29 (1821) ; Pearson, 



As. Res. xix, p. 69, pi. ix ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 693. 

 Eurynorhynchus pygmaeus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 979; Blyth, Cat. 



p. 270; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 169; Harting, Ibis, 1869, p. 427, 



pi. xii ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv, p. 343 ; Hume $ Dai). S. F. vi, p. 462 ; 



Hume, S. F. vii, p. 487 ; id. Cat. no. 887 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 395 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 535. 

 Tringa pygnisea, Seebohm, Charadr. p. 440. 



Fig. 62. Bill of E. pygmants. }. 



Coloration in winter. Forehead, supercilia, lores, cheeks, and 

 whole lower plumage, including axillaries, white ; upper surface 

 light brown with dark shaft-stripes ; wing-coverts darker, the 

 greater coverts white-tipped ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, 

 primaries, and secondaries dark brown, inner webs of secondaries 

 chiefly white; rump and upper tail-coverts dark brown in the 

 middle, white at the sides ; middle rectrices dark brown, outer 

 paler, with edges and shaft-stripes white. 



In summer the upper parts are blackish, and the feathers 

 fringed with rufous ; fore neck and upper breast deep ferruginous, 

 and the whole breast spotted with dark brown. 



