SANDPIPER. 297 



60.- SLENDER-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Totanus tenuirostris, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 192. 



SIZE uncertain. Bill slender; plumage above brown, varied 

 with ash-colour; quills brown; beneath whitish; chin and breast 

 spotted with brown. 



Inhabits Java, by the name of Keeyo. 



61.— JAVAN SANDPIPER. 



Totanus Javanicus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 193. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill whitish at the base ; plumage above 

 grey brown ; scapulars and quills deeper in colour ; beneath white ; 

 under wing coverts white to beyond the middle, and obliquely trun- 

 cated ; legs rather short ; tail feathers all of one colour. 



Inhabits Java, known there by the name of Bedaran or Choweyan. 



62 —ASIATIC SANDPIPER. 



Totanus Damacensis, Lin. Trans, xiii. 192. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Plumage above pale cinereous 

 brown, beneath white ; quills brown, the shafts of the prime ones 

 white, of the others brownish. — Inhabits Java. 



63— CEYLON SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill slender, one inch and a quarter, 

 upper mandible bent at the tip, colour dusky ; tongue half the 

 length of the bill ; plumage in general cinereous brown ; crown, 



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