IBIDOEHYNCHUS. 



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Plates. — Gould, Cent. Birds Himalaya Mountains, pi. lxxix. ; Gould, Birds of Asia, vii. pi. 61 ; Literature. 



David & Oust. Ois. Chine, pi. 118, 

 Habits. — Jerdon, Birds of India, iii. p. 685. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



The Ibis-billed Oystercatcher, somewhat pedantically called by Hodgson the 

 Red-billed Erolia and the Gorgeted Chlorhynx, and misnamed the Red-billed Curlew by 

 Jerdon, is an aberrant Oystercatcher, having little affinity with the Curlews, and still less 

 with the Ibises. 



It is a resident in Central Asia from Turkestan, east of the Sea of Aral, to the valley 

 of the Hoang-ho in North China, occasionally wandering in winter to Cashmere, Nepal, 

 and Sikkim. It may possibly breed at high elevations in the Himalayas. 



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