500 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA 



881 Ms. — Tringa crassirostris, Tern and Schleg. 



This species, which I first recorded as occurring within our 

 limits in the Kurrachee Harbour, where it was common, is fully 

 described, Stray Feathers, Vol. I., p. 240. Lord Walden has 

 now received it from the Andamans, and it must, therefore, now 

 be included in our list. 



912 fo's.— Euryzona Canningi, Tytler. 



It is to Captain Wimberley that I am indebted for a magnifi- 

 cent series (no less than twelve specimens, all carefully sexed and 

 measured in the flesh) of this singularly beautiful Rail. 



The following are the dimensions ; the sexes do not appear 

 to differ perceptibly in size ; the females may perhaps average 

 smaller, but some females are as large as any males : — 



Length, 13 to 145; expanse, 19 to 20; tail, from vent, 

 3-25 to 3-6; wing, 5'95 to 6"4; tarsus, 2'05 to 2-3; bill, from 

 gape, 1*35 to 1*5 ; bill, at front, LI to L22; mid toe and claw, 

 1-85 to 2-0 ; its claw only, 0'4 to 0'45. 



The primaries vary somewhat in their proportions ; the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth are sub-equal and longest, but sometimes one and 

 sometimes another of these three is a little the longest. 



The third is about 0*3, the second about 0'6, and the first 

 about 1*4 shorter than the longest. 



The legs and feet are olive green ; the bill a delicate pale 

 chrysoprase green ; the irides are red. 



The entire head, neck all round, upper breast, and the entire 

 upper surface including the whole visible portion of the closed 

 wing, deep maroon chesnut; in fine specimens the richest color, 

 conceivable ; the lower breast, and the whole of the rest of the 

 lower parts, including the axillaries and wing-lining, black 

 (becoming somewhat duller and browner on the flanks and 

 lower tail-coverts), very strongly and broadly barred with white, 

 the bars, however, being narrower and less purely white on the 

 flanks and lower tail-coverts. 



Some specimens, chiefly females apparently, are duller colored 

 and have a marked olivaceous tinge on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts. 



"When the Avings are opened, and the elongated tertiaries 

 (which are longer than the longest primaries) are pushed aside, 

 the primaries and secondaries are found to be an olivaceous 

 brown on the outer webs, pretty strongly tinged with rufous, 

 with the inner webs black or blackish brown ; on the inner 

 webs are numerous moderately narrow, somewhat slanting, 



