GopwiITt. GRALLATORES. LIMOSA. ey Ol 
streaked with pale hair-brown. Throat pure white. 
The belly and abdomen white, with a tinge of yellow- 
ish-grey. The flanks, and some of the under tail-coverts 
streaked with hair-brown. Upper part of the back and 
scapulars a fine pearl-grey, margined paler; with the 
shafts and part immediately contiguous greyish-black. 
Wing coverts white, with centres of hair-brown. The 
quills are as described in the summer plumage. ‘The 
tail is barred with hair-brown and greyish-white. 
The young, previous to the first change, have the crown 
of the head streaked with dark hair-brown; the eye- 
streak and cheeks white, with small pale streaks of 
wood-brown. The throat white. The neck and breast 
grey, tinged with wood-brown, and faintly streaked with 
a darker shade of brown; under parts white, tinged 
with yellowish-grey. Upper part of the back and the 
scapulars hair-brown, deeply margined and spotted with 
pale sienna or ochreous yellow. Lower part of the back, 
and upper tail-coverts white, with a few spots of pale 
hair-brown. ‘Vail barred with hair-brown and white. 
Legs grey. Bill, in many specimens, not exceeding two 
inches and a-half in length; brown, with a flesh-coloured 
base. 
Genus MACRORAMPHUS, Leacu. LONGBEAK. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill very long, nearly straight, rather tumid and wrinkled 
at the base ; the tip much dilated, and rugose after death; 
both mandibles furrowed to within a short space of the point. 
Nostrils lateral, placed near the base, linear and pervious. 
Wings long ; the first quill scarcely exceeding the second, 
and the longest in the wing. Legs long, slender; with the 
lower parts of the tibiz naked. Feet four-toed; three-before 
and one behind. The outer toe connected with the inter- 
Young. 
