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Plates. — Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. pi. cxlii. 

 Habits. — Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 974. 



Eggs. — Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 455 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 579. 

 Indistinguishable from eggs of (E. grallarius. 



Literature. 



The Great Indian Stone-Curlew may always be recognized by its upturned bill ; the Specific 



line of the gape is recurved, so that the upper profile of the bill is nearly straight. c aracters - 



It is a resident in India, Burma, and Ceylon, breeding in March and April on sand- Geographi- 



banks and rocky islets in the beds of rivers, and in Ceylon on the sea-shore. ti 



■It is nearest related to (E. magnirostris, which, like it, has a short tarsus (not an inch Nearest 

 longer than the bill) and no pale edges to the feathers of the upper parts. 



allies. 



(Half natural size.) 



CEDICNEMUS MAGNIROSTRIS, 



AUSTBO-MALAYAN STONE-CURLEW. 



OEdicnemus loris nigris. 



Diagnosis. 



It is not known that the Austro-Malayan Stone-Curlew is subject to any variation Variations. 



notwithstanding its wide range. 



