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Davidson, ibid, p. 320 ; Oates, B. B. B., ii, p. 386 ; Hume, Str. F., 

 xi, p. 322 ; Seebohm, Charadriidas, p. 456 ; Oates, Hume's 

 " Nests and Eggs," iii, p. 350 ; Munn, Ibis, p. 894, p. 73. 



Whynchoea bengalensis. — Gray, Cat. Nepal Pres. Hodg, p. 140 ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S., p. 273 ; Jerdon, B. of In., iii, p. 677 ; 

 Stoliczka, J. A. S. B., xxxvii, p. 20 ; King, ibid, p. 217 ; Hutton, 

 ibid, xvi, p. 790 ; Hume, " Nests and Eggs," p. 586 ; id, 

 Str. F., i, p. 235 ; Adam, ibid, p. 396 ; Ball, ibid, ii, p. 431 ; 

 Oates, ibid, iii, p. 346 ; Blyth and Walden, B. of B., p. 157 ; 

 Butler, Str. F., iv, p. 15 ; Fairbank, ibid, p. 263 ; Hume, ibid, v, 

 p. 46 ; Butler, ibid, p. 223 ; Hume and Davis, ibid, vi, p. 459 ; 

 David and Wen., ibid, vii, p. 89 ; Ball, ibid, p. 228 ; Cripps, ibid, 

 p. 302 ; Godwin Aus., J. A. S. B., xlvii, pt. II, p. 21 ; Butler, 

 Cat. Birds of Scind, p. 61 ; id, Str. F., vii, p. 187 ; Ball and 

 Hume, ibid, p. 228 ; Cripps, ibid, p. 302 ; Hume, ibid, p. 484 ; id, 

 Cat. No. 873 ; Hume, Str. F., viii, p. 112, 957 ; Doig, ibid, p. 371 ; 

 Butler, Cat. B. S. Bom. Pres., p. 76 ; Hume and Marsh, Game B. 

 of In., iii, p. 381 ; Vidal, Str. F., ix, p. 84 ; Bingham, ibid, p. 

 197 ; Davidson, ibid, p. 230 ; Dawson, ibid, x, p. 414 ; Murray, 

 Fauna, Scind, p. 242 ; Barnes, B. of Bom., p. 347 ; id, Jour. B. 

 N. H. S., i, p. 59 ; et, vi, p. 130. 



Vernacular names. — Ohari, Nepal ; Kone, Konebatta, Singh- 

 boom ; Tibud, Pan-lawa, (Mahrati) Ratnagiri ; Mail-ulan, (Tamil) 

 Madras ; Baggajee, ( L. Bengal ) ; Rajakaeswatuwa, (Cing.) ; 

 Daonidap Gajao, (Cachari.) 



Description. — Adult 'male. — Crown olive-black, with very fine bars 

 of white and a broad medium band buff; feathers round the eye 

 and short, but broad, streak behind it, over the ear-coverts, buff, 

 the feathers next the buff darker than eLewhere on the head ; 

 lores grey brown, very finely barred with black and more or less 

 stippled with white. Upper back and scapulars a more olive 

 brown with patches of dark metallic olive green and the outer 

 webs of the scapulars buff, forming two lines down the sides 

 of the neck similar to those in true snipes ; lower back, rump 

 and upper tail coverts a vinous grey, very narrowly barred with 

 black and with a few white dots, the last named also with buff 

 circular spots ; tail the same with buff edges to the tips. Wing 



