TOTANUS. 



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Karachi, 30.10.76. 



Breeds from Asia Minor to S.E. Siberia, and migrates in winter to Africa, S. Asia, 

 and Malayan Archipelago. Common in cold season in India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 Four eggs (1-8 x 1-25), buflf, spotted dark brown. (J. 897. B. 1464.) 



170. Totanus fuscus. The Spotted Eed-shanks. 

 Fuscus =dfaskj, 



Batan, India; Yerra Kal ulanka (Telugu). 



1$ 13"; 7J to 9 oz. Legs orange-red. Bill 2J", orange, tip black. — In winter: 

 Black patch near eye. Supercilia from base of bill white. Sides of neck and 

 upper breast indistinctly spotted and mottled with brown. Secondaries barred 

 brown and white. Upper tail-coverts barred black and white. Central tail ash- 



170. Totanus fuscus. Buckree, 10.10.72. 



