170 Expedition to the 



swiftness and cunning, are so often unavailing, that they are 

 sometimes reduced to the necessity of eating wild plums, 

 and other fruits, to them almost indigestible, in order to 



Length 5 1-4 inches. 



Shot at Engineer Cantonment early in May. This bird is distinguished 

 by the colour of the feathers on the crown of the head, which are of a iuh- 

 vous colour, tipped with the same colour as that of the neck and back, so 

 that the fulvous colour does not appear at first sight. The wings are des- 

 titute of any white band, and tbe margins of the six exterior prima- 

 ries, are much paler than those of the others. We cannot find any des- 

 cription of this bird, it seems, however, to approach nearest to the S. leu- 

 cogastra. Steph., Nashville warbler of Wilson; but in our specimen the 

 belly is not white, neither does Wilson's description of the colour of the 

 head of his Nashville warbler, agree at all with that of our bird. 



2 Sylvia bifasciata. Above bluish; all beneath white; head slightly vari- 

 ed with darker; between the eyes and bill blackish; bill black; interscapu- 

 lars Jineate with blackish; tows - ? blackish; shoulders bluish; wing coverts 

 with two white bands; primaries margined with wnite on the inner side, 

 and with plumbeous on the exterior side; tail black; feathers blackish, 

 white on the inner margin, and plumbeous on the exterior margin, and 

 excepting the two middle ones, with a white spot on the inner side near 

 the tip; flanks spotted with ipiumheous; feet black. 



Length rather more than 4 3-4 inches. 



Shot in May near Engineer Cantonment. This species seems to ap- 

 proach very closely to S. coerulea. 



Genus Limosa, Cuv. 

 Limosa scolopacea. Dusky cinereous; bill straight, upper mandible a 

 little longer, aud very slightly arquated towards the tip, the grooves con- 

 tinued to near the tip, about as long again as the head, yellowish-green; 

 tip black, dilated, rugose, witli a dorsal groove; palate with reflected, 

 cartilaginous spines; head with a line from the upper mandible, passing 

 over the eye and inferior orbit, white; cheeks, chin, throat and origin of 

 the breist, cinerous, the plumage margined with dull whitish; back be- 

 neath the interscapulars, white; rump, plumage white, fasciate with black; 

 tail coverts, and tail white, fasciate with black, which latter colour is more 

 abundant; lesser wiws coverts margined with whitish; greater viing coverts 

 black, terminal margin white; secondaries black, margin and submargin 

 white; primaries black, interior ones very slightly edged with white; 

 outer shaft white, a little longer than the second; breast and belly white; 

 sides spotted or undulated with blackish cinereous; inferior tail coverts 

 with black abbreviated bands, the white prevailing; feet dirty greeuish; 

 toes webbed at base, the exterior one reaching the first joint of outer toe, 

 the interior one very short; hind toe rather long. 



Length from tip of bill to that of the tail 1 1 3-4 inches. 



Length of bill, 2 3-4 



Length of feet, 5 3-4 



Length from the knee to the origin of the feathers 1 1 -10 

 Tail projecting more than one inch beyond the tip of the wing. 

 Several specimens were shot in a pond near the Bowyer creek. Corres- 

 ponds with the genus Scolopax, Cuv. in having the dorsal grooves at the 



