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proceeding through the eyes and ears from the nares. Below, from 

 chin to legs pure white, from legs inclusively to tail, flavescent : the 

 flanks broadly cross-barred with black : a spot of the same hue at 

 the base of the maxilla : most of the quills and the lateral rectrices, 

 tipped with white : lining of the wings and quills internally towards 

 their bases, albescent : bill above blackish, below plumbeous : legs 

 orange yellow: iris brown, 7 inches long by 11 wide, and 2 oz. in 

 weight : bill [t : tarsus l?s : central toe J| : hind toe \ %. The female 

 is a trifle less in size : her mantle is variegated by longitudinal black 

 drops ; and her cheek-band is brown instead of black. 



2. Indication of a new Genus of Waders, belonging to the Charadriatic 



Family. 



Most Indian sportsmen are aware that there are two species of 

 wader, known to the natives by the common name of Carvdnak or 

 Carbdnak ; one of which frequents dry sandy plains, and the other, 

 sandy banks of rivers. 



The former bird belongs to the genus (Edicnemus or Thick- knee, 

 scarcely differing, as a variety, from the European type of that genus. 

 But the latter, though possessing the same figure (even to the large 

 head, with abrupt elevated forehead and great staring eye), as the 

 other ; and though, moreover, resembling the other strictly in the 

 form of the legs, wings and tail, yet differs from it totally in the 

 structure of the bill. 



This member, which in (Edicnemus has very much of the Plover 

 form, in the river-haunting Carvdnak exhibits the strength and size 

 so conspicuous in the Storks and Jabirus. 



I find no generic mention of such a form in the works of Ornitho- 

 logy accessible to me ; and I therefore propose to characterise it as 

 a new genus ; subject to the correction of those whose access to 

 libraries and museums qualifies them to lay down the law in matters 

 of this sort. 



Order Grallatores. Family Charadriad^e. Genus Carvdnaca, nobis. 



Character. 



Bill twice as long as the head, sub-recurved, strong, convex above, 

 considerably compressed ; the base thickish and rounded ; the tomise 

 very trenchant, locked, and denticulated and notched towards the tip, 

 as in Ardea. Nares broad-linear and placed forward in a wide 

 membranous fosse, extending ^ from the base to the tip of the 

 culmen. Tongue long, narrow, fleshy : towards the point cartilagi- 

 nous, and the point itself sub-bifid. Form of the head and body, of 

 the feet, wings and tail, as in (Edicnemus. 





