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p. 165; Davidson, ibid, p. 320; Davison, ibid, p. 314; Taylor. 

 ibid, p. 465 ; Oates, B. of B., ii, p. 384 ; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 346 ; 

 Hume, Str. Feath., xi, p. 321 ; "W. Gaye, Journal, B.N.H.S., vi, p. 

 418 ; Stuart Baker, ibid, xii, p. 501 ; A. L. Butler, ibid, xiii, p. 

 149; Inglis, ibid, xiv, p. 771; Marshall, ibid, xv, p. 354; Wall, 

 ibid, p. 72 ; Macdonald, ibid, xvii, p. 500 ; Dresser, Pal. Birds, ii, 

 p. 763; Blanford, F. of B. I., iv, p. 292 ; Bahr, Ibis, 1907, p. 29 ; 

 Dresser, "Eggs of Eur. Birds," p. 690; Finn. Ind. Waders, p. 

 150 ; Bahr, Proceedings Z. S. 5 June 1907, p. 28. 



Limnocryples gallintda. — Sharpe, Cat. B. M., xxiv, p. 665 ; id., 

 Hand List, i, p. 166 ; Oates, Game Birds, ii, p. 131 ; id., Cat. 

 Eggs, B. M., ii, p. 66. 



Vernacular Names. — Chota Ghaha (Hm.) ; Chota Bharca 

 (Nepal) ; Olan (Tamil) ; Tibad, Pan Kaiva (Mahrati) ; Baodidap 

 Gajiba (Cachari). 



Description. — Adult male. — Crown to nape velvety black, stip- 

 pled with rufous, a very broad supercilium pale buff; sides of the 

 head dull white marked with rufous brown, two broad brown 

 streaks running from the bill, the upper through the eye, the 

 lower under the ear-coverts. Hindneck rufous stippled with 

 white and dark brown ; back, scapulars and rump black, glossed 

 with purple and green varying in different lights, the outer webs 

 of the scapulars buff, forming two bands and the inner more or 

 less barred with rufous ; upper tail coverts and tail dark brown 

 with rufescent buff borders. Lesser and median wing-coverts 

 deep brown or black, with very pale buff or white bars, greater 

 coverts dark brown tipped white, wing quills dark brown, the first 

 primary pale on the base of the outer web and the secondaries 

 tipped with white. Chin white, neck, breast and flanks mixed 

 white, brown and rufous, the brown predominating ; abdomen and 

 lower breast white, undertail coverts with dark shaft streaks. 

 Underwing coverts white barred with brown on the edge of the 

 wing ; axillaries white, sometimes slightly barred with brown but 

 generally pure white. 



Adult Female. — Similar to the male. 



Winter Plumage. — " Scarcely to be distinguished from the 



