232 



ESACINxE. 



broad black tip, except the outermost feather, which is white at the 

 base and more broadly tipped with black ; bill black, greenish at the 

 base ; irides yellow ; legs yellow. 



Length. — 20 inches, wing 10-5, tail 4-37, tarsus 3-5, bill at front 

 3, at gape 3'75. 



Hah. — Nearly throughout India, along the sea coast and banks of 

 large rivers. From the stomach of a specimen got in the Kuri-achee 

 harbour ten calling crabs (Gelaslmus anmdipes) were extracted. 



Gen. CEdicnemus-— Cfw. 



Bill longer than the head, straight and slightly depressed at the base ; 

 cnlmen raised near the point ; mandible angulated beneath ; nostrils 

 in the middle of the bill in a longitudinal slit j toes three ; tail 

 graduated. 



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CEdicnemus crepitans, Tem. ; P. E.Q19; Gould. B. E. pi. 288 ; 



Jerd. B. I»'i.iii.p. 654, No. 859; Str. F. i. 232 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., 

 Sj-c, Sind, p. 212. QEdicnemus scolopax, S. G. Guel. — The Stone Plover 

 or I5ASTAED Floeiken. 



Lores white, with a few brown spots ; chin and throat white ; a 

 distinct narrow moustachial stripe from the base of the lower mandible ; 

 head, neck, back, scapulars and upper tail-coverts reddish ashy, each 

 feather with a mesial dusky streak; breast the same as the back; belly 

 white ; under tail-coverts reddish ashy ; tail white basally, all the feathers 

 except the middle ones tipped with black; thigh-coverts white; pri- 

 maries black, the first three quills with a patch of white at their 

 terminal third, and the last threo white basally and at tip with a sub- 

 terminal dark band ; edges of the greater wing-coverts white^ forming 

 a vvinDj band. 



