Contributions to tlie Ornitliology of India, 8fc. 247 



Idu^. Rump and upper tail coverts, dusky grey, the longest of 

 the latter marg-ined towards the tips with rufous buff; tail, 

 brownish grey ; the central feathers darker towards the tips, 

 where they are narrowly marg-ined with buff, the lateral ones 

 similarly margined with white and huffy white. The lesser and 

 median wing coverts dark greyish brown, darkest in the case 

 of the median coverts towards the tips, where they are narrowly 

 margined, with white and pale rufous buff ; the greater coverts 

 dark brown, tipped white, those of the secondaries very broadly 

 and conspicuously so. Primaries, dark brown, conspicuously 

 white shafted, all but the first three, ver-i/ narrowly margined with 

 white at the tips; secondaries similarly, but not quite so narrowly 

 margined ; white at their bases, the extent of white increasing 

 as the leathers approach the tertiaries, so much so, that the 

 latest are almost wholly white, having only a pale grey brown 

 streak down one web towards the tips. Tertiaries like tiie 

 scapulars, but paling towards their bases and less broadly 

 margined with rufous buff. 



It will be seen that the above description does not correspond 

 over well with that usually given of L. liyperhoreus. 



The bird is clearly a Lohijjes, with a very slender, pointed, 

 compressed bill, tapering to a point not at all enlarged at the end 

 as in Fhalarojms. The first quill also is the longest, and not the 

 second as in this latter genus. Bat the wing lining is white, 

 not grey, nor are the upper tail coverts barred white and grey as 

 in hyperborem, and the marked rufous buff margins of the back, 

 scapulars, and tertiaries, as well as the velvetty black of these 

 parts, rather resemble P. fulicarins. 



Altogether I am by no means certain that when we get more 

 specimens we shall not find grounds for separating our species, 

 when it might stand as L. trojnciis, nobis, but until I obtain -V~ 

 European specimens for comparison, I shall retain the specimen 

 under the Linnean title. 



Whether Hyperhorens, or a nearly allied but distinct species, 

 there can be little doubt that this is the bird of which Dr. 

 Stewart obtained a single specimen at Madras. 



892.— Totanus ochrophus, L, )^ '<_^ 

 893.— Tringoides hypoleucos, L. ^ ' 



Both species were occasionally met with throughout Sindh. 



894.— Totanus canescens, ^.—T. glottis, L. 



apud. aud. ''^<^. 



The green shank was extraordinarily abundant in the great 

 rivers of the Punjab, in large parties of fifty occasionally, and 



