BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 303° 
Eurinorhynchus (emendation) Cuvier, Régne Animal, 2d ed., i, 1829, 528. 
Eurinorhyncus (emendation) Hartina, Ibis, 1869, 427. 
Eurinorinchus (emendation) Hartina, Ibis, 1869, 427. 
Eurinorincus (emendation) Hartine, Ibis, 1869, 427. 
Eurinoryncus (emendation) Hartine, Ibis, 1869, 427. 
Eurinorynchus (emendation) Pearson, Asiat. Researches, xix, 1836, 69. 
Eurrhinorrhynchus (emendation) SHARPE, Zool. Record, xix, 1884, Aves, 2. 
Eurrhynorrhynchus (emendation) [PottaKow?] Messager Orn., vi, 1915, 260. 
Eurynorhinchus (emendation) Larresnaye, Rev. Zool., v, 1842, 402. 
Eurynorrhynchus (emendation) SaunpERs, Zool. Record, xiv, 1879, Aves, 1, 55. 
Eurynorynchus (emendation) ReicuEnBacH, Av. Syst., 1853, 24, xiii. 
Euryrhynchus (emendation) Nrrzscu, Observ. Avium Art. Carot. Comm., 1829, 18. 
Urinorynchus (emendation) PEarson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, v, 1836, 253. 
Small Eroliine (wing 94-102 mm.) resembling Pisobia but with 
ill much broader than deep and with its terminal portion broadly 
xpanded. 
Bill about as long as head, the exposed culmen equal in length to 
arsus, between one-fourth and one-fifth as long as wing, much 
oroader than deep, the distal third (approximately) expanded into 
. broad, somewhat rhomboid or kite-shaped paddle or shovel, whose 
vidth is equal to about half the length of exposed culmen; nasal 
‘troove rather broad throughout, extending to base of expanded tip 
f maxilla; mandible with a much narrower and less distinct lateral 
‘roove; nostril sub-basal, narrowly oval or elliptical, its upper edge 
omewhat operculate; malar antia obliquely truncate, slightly 
mterior to loral antia, the mental antia broadly rounded, slightly 
mterior to malar antia. Wing rather long, pointed, the longest 
rimary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries by more than one- 
1alf the length of wing, and greatly exceeding the elongated, tapering, 
rut not acuminate tertials, Tail more than two-fifths as long as 
ving, distinctly double-emarginate, the middle pair of rectrices 
onger than the lateral pair, subacuminate; rectrices 12. Tarsus 
tbout as long as exposed culmen, less than one-fifth as long as wing, 
sontinuously scutellate anteriorly and posteriorly; naked portion of 
iibia about as long as first two phalanges of middle toe, non-scutellate 
wr with scutella indistinct; middle toe, with claw, shorter than tarsus, 
he outer toe slightly shorter, the inner still shorter; claws narrow, 
‘ather long, slightly curved; edge of toes finely serrate; no webs 
vetween anterior toes. 
Coloration. Not distinctive, resembling that of Pisobia rujicollis. 
Bange.—aastern Asia. (Monotypic.) 
EURYNORHYNCHUS PYGMEUS (Linnzus.) 
SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
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Adult male in summer.—Pileum dull cinnamon-rufous or hazel, 
nearly mikado brown or light russet), more or less deep, broadly 
treaked with black; rest of head, together with throat and foreneck, 
