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In winter plumage the crown and occiput are not Wack^ but 

 olive bi-own^ more or less mottled with duskv, and on the crown, 

 with fulvous white. There is no dark line through the lores, 

 which with the chin, throat, abdomen, lower tail coverts are pure 

 white ; the sides and front of the neck and breast are greyish 

 white, more or less tinged, streaked, and mottled with greyish 

 brown ; the forehead and superciliary stripe are tinged rufous ; 

 most of the feathers of the mantle are narrowly tipped with rufous 

 white or pale buffy ; and the abdominal patch is entirely want- 

 ing. I do not know whether this species breds in India, but I 

 think it does not. 



853. — ChettUSia fiavipes, Savigni. C. leucura, 

 Liclit. 



I often met with this species in small parties in the neigh- 

 bourhood of large pieces of water in Upper Sindh ; but in south- 

 em Sindh, I only once saw it. It is essentially. a bird of the 

 swamps, very rarely seen on the banks of rivers or running 

 streams. It is only a winter visitant to India, but during that 

 season is very plentiful throughout the Punjab, Oudh, the North- 

 Western Provinces, and Rajpotana, in suitable localities. 



855. — Lobivanellus indicus, BoM. Goensis, Gm. 



Abundant every where in Sindh, but not nearly so numerous 

 as in the North-Western Provinces. 



858. — Esacus recur virostris, Guv. 



This great stone plover occurs, though nowhere very numer- 

 ous, in all the great rivers of the Punjab and equally so in the 

 Indus in Sindh. A fine male that I measured was, length., 

 21 ; expanse, 36'5 ; tail from vent, 5"5 ; wing, 10"o ; elongated 

 tertials exceed primaries by nearly an inch ; bill at front, 3 ; 

 tarsus, 3"4 ; irides, light yellow; legs and feet, very pale yellowish 

 green ; bill black, greenish yellow at the base ; the bird weighed 

 1 lb. 12 oz. 



859— CEdicnemus crepitans, Tem. 



The goggle-eyed plover is not uncommon in Sindh. "We met 

 with it in several occasions in rather open tamarisk jungle in 

 comparatively large parties. Salvador! separates our Indian 

 thick-knee as indicws ; but I confess that I have great doubts of 

 the necessity of this. Upper Indian birds do run somewhat 

 smaller than the European ; but the Sindh birds are I think 

 larger than the upper Indian ones, and I expect that if a lai-ge 

 series were got together, every possible variation in size would be 

 found. One male I killed measured^ lengthy 16 ; expanse, 30-75 ; 



