250 SANDPIPER. 



A. — Length nine inches. Bill dusky; head and neck pale ash- 

 colour; the feathers with whitish margins, top of the head spotted 

 dusky black ; chin, throat, and all beneath from the breast, white ; 

 back and wings ash-colour ; down the shaft of each feather a black 

 line, and the margins white; rump black and white mixed; the 

 wings rather exceed the tail in length, and hide it; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits India ; called Bagouda.— Sir J. Anstruther. In one 

 drawing the feathers are more dusky, and margined for the most 

 part with white. This is also called Bagoudee, or the Bastard Snipe. 



5— INDIAN SANDPIPER. 



SIZE of the last. Bill black ; head, neck, and breast, pale dirty 

 buff; on the crown a few short, dusky streaks; back and wings 

 brown, the feathers margined with buff; quills and tail similar, the 

 last rounded at the end, and the quills rather exceed it ; belly, thighs, 

 and vent, white ; legs pale brownish green. 



Inhabits India. Found at Cawnpore, in September, known by 

 the name of Bagoudee. 



A second of these called Bhegoudee-lal, differed in having the 

 greater part of the head, sides, and hind part of the neck, streaked 

 with dusky; back and wings ferruginous brown, the margins of the 

 feathers pale, and each marked with a kind of dusky crescent near 

 the end ; on the second quills appearing as bars ; greater quills plain 

 dusky, and as long as the tail, which is ferruginous brown, crossed 

 with five or more dusky, interrupted bars, and rounded at the end ; 

 beneath to the breast dirty pale buff; on the breast a few transverse, 

 darker mottlings, the rest white ; legs rufous orange. 



Found at Lucknow, in India, in March. 



