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Order LIMIC0L51 (Continued). 



/ Curlews. 

 I Whimbrels. 



j- GODWITS. 



Anterior toes partially 

 webbed at base . 



NtTMENIUS . 

 LiMOSA 



Macrorhamphus 

 Terekia 



Anterior toes divided to 

 base. Tarsus and culmen 

 equal .... 



TOTANUS 



Pavoncblla 

 Calidris 

 eubinorhtnchus . 



Tringa 



Anterior toes lobed . 

 Anterior toes free and cleft 



to base. Tarsus scutel- . 



lated .... 

 Plumage white . 

 Plumage game . 



Phalaropos 

 scolopax . 

 Gallinaso . 

 k08tratula 

 Chionis, Chionarchus 

 Attagis, Thinocorus 



AvocET Sandpipers. 

 Yellow-shanks. 

 Green-shanks. 

 Sandpipers. 



EbD-S HANKS. 



Wood-Sandpipbes. 



EUFFS. 



Sanderlings. 

 Stints. 

 ' Pectoral Sandpipers. 

 Knots. 



Curlew Stints. 

 Dunlins. 



Broad-billed Stints. 

 Phalaropes. 

 Woodcocks. 

 Snipes. 



Painted Snipes. 

 Sheath-bills.* 

 Seed-Snipes.* 



Subfamily ToTANiN^. Curlews, God wits. Sandpipers, Stints, and 



Phalaropes. 



Bill lengthened. Fourth and second toes joined by webs to third. (In 

 Phalaropus toes have scalloped webs.) Tarsus transversely shielded both in 

 front and behind (Numenius excepted). Summer and winter garb distinct. 

 Sexes alike (Pavoncella excepted). With hind toe (Calidris excepted), 



Migratory birds scattered in both hemispheres. Winter visitants to India, 

 breeding in N. and C. Europe and Asia. They pick up small Crustacea and 

 molluscs from the surface, and do not insert their bills deeply like Snipes. 

 Several are solitary in their habits. 



(i.) Anterior toes partially webbed at base. 



Genus NUMENIUS. 



Numenlus=vovii.iivios, a kind of Curlew in Diogenes Laertiua (about A.D. 200); from 

 Wos=newi and /i^i'i;=the moon, from its "crescent" beak. 



Hind toe with nail short. Bill very long, curved downwards. Nasal groove 

 for three-quarters length of bill. Anterior toes webbed at base. Tarsi transversely 

 scaled in front and reticulated behind. Differ from Godwits and Stints in beak 



Kot represented in India. 



