GYGIS.— RHTNCHOPS. 229 



255. Anoiis stolidus. The Noddy. 



(J 14" to 16J". Legs red-brown. Bill black. Forehead, crown, and throat 

 grey. Sooty brown above and below. Quills and tail darker. Tropical and 

 subtropical seas, breeding, as a rule, where found. One egg (2-08 x 1'38), whitish, 

 spotted dark brown and purple. (J. 993. B. 1515.) 



256. Anoiis leucocapillus. The White-headed Noddy. 



^11" to 13". Legs black. Bill black. Front and crown white. Lores 

 and chin black. Nape and shoulders nearly blue-black. In tail, third feather 

 from outside the longest. Rest of plumage sooty brown. Tropical seas. (J. 994. 

 B. 1516. S.F. ii. 322.) 



Ako A. hawaiiensis. 13J". Legs brown. Bill black. Forehead and crown greyish white. 

 Lores black. Cheeks and throat lead-grey. Nape, shoulders, mantle, and tail dull lavender- 

 grey. Third tail-feather from outside longest. Below sooty black. Sandwich Islands. 



A. tenuirostris. 12". Legs brown. Bill black. A small black circlet above the eye, 

 followed by minute white eyelid streak and then a small black spot. Cheeks grey. Lores 

 lavender. Third tail-feather from outside longest. From Seychelles and Madagascar to 

 Australia. 



Also the genus Procelstema. With second feather from outside of tail longest. Foot very 

 long. General colour grey. Two species — P. cosndea, 9|", legs brown, bill blackish, dark 

 grey above, pale grey below, shafts of primaries black, Central Polynesia ; and P. einerea, 11", 

 legs reddish black, bill black, pale grey above, white below, shafts of primaries brown, 

 Australian and New Zealand seas. 



Genus GYGIS. 

 Bill stout at the base, pointed. Culmen almost straight or slightly upcurved. 

 Toes slender. Mid toe abnormally long, webs deeply indented. Plumage pure 

 white. 



257. Gygis Candida. The White Noddy. 

 (J 12" to 13". Legs dark brown. Bill black. Irides blue. Narrow black 

 ring round the eye. Second feather from outside of tail longest. Shafts 

 brownish. W. Indies, across Atlantic to Indian Ocean, Malayasia to Australia, 

 Polynesia to the Sandwich Islands. (B. 326. S.F. vii. 447.) 



Also G. microrhyncha. lOi". Legs brown. Bill black. Third feather from outside of 

 tail longest. Shafts white. Marquesas Islands. 



Subfamily Ehynchopin^e. Skimmers or Scissors-bills. 



Bill much compressed. Upper mandible freely movable, and considerably 

 shorter than the lower (the bill of the young when hatched resembles that of a 

 Tern). Wing long, first primary longest. Tail short, slightly forked. Feet 

 small, webs with concave edges. Temperate and tropical America, Africa, India, 

 to Burma. 



Genus RHYNOHOPS. 

 ^ii7X<'s=a bill, &\(i=a, face. 



Lower mandible knife-like, flexible, truncated at end, and closely marked on 



side with minute oblique ridges. Nostrils elongate, opening in an irregular 



hollow. 



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