356 OYSTER-CATCHER. 



GENUS LXXXIV. -OYSTER-CATCHER. 



1 Pied Oyster-catcher 

 A Var. 



B Var. 

 2 Black 



3 Brown-backed 



4 New-Holland 



JLjILL long, compressed, cuneated at the end. 



Nostrils linear. 



Tongue scarcely one-third of the length of the bill. 



Toes three in number, all placed forwards ; the exterior joined 

 to the middle by a strong membrane. 



1.— PIED OYSTER-CATCHER — Pl. clvi. 



Hsematopus ostralegus, Ind. Orn. ii. 752. Lin. i. 257. Faun. suec. No. 192. Gm. 



Lin. i. G94. Brun. No. 189. Midler, No. 215. Sepp, t. p. 51. Raii, 105. A. 7. 



Will. 200. t. 55. Borowsk. iii. 106. t. 57. Fn. Helv. Bartr. Trav. 294. Gerin. 



iv. t. 471. Amer. Orn. viii. pl. 64, f. 2. Tern. Man. 340. Id. Ed. ii. p. 531. 



Robert, pl. 22. 

 Scolopax Pica, Scop. i. No. 135. 

 Pica marina, N. C. Petr. iv. 425. 



Ostralega, seu Pica marina, Bris. v. 38. t. 3. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 221. Klein, p. 23. 

 L'Huitiier, Buf. viii. 119. pl. 9. Pl. enl. 929. 

 Die Meerelster, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 226. 

 Austermann, Win: Vog. t. 36. 



Austerfischer, Naturf. xiii. 219. Schmid, p. 110. t. 96. 

 Pied Oyster-catcher, Gen. Syn. v. 219. pl. 84. Br. Zool. ii. 213. pl.74. Id.fol. 127. 



pl. D. 2. Id. 1812. ii. p. 112. pl. xix. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 406. Will. Engl. 297. 



Alb. i. pl. 78. Cat. Car. i. pl. 85. Hayes, pl. 12. Bew. ii. pl. p. 7. Lewin, v. 



pl. 188. /</. pl. xxxv. 1.— the egg. Wale. ii. pl. 166. Donov. iii. pl. 62. Putt. 



Dors. p. 15. Graves, Orn. Orn. Diet. <y Supp. 



SIZE of a Crow ; length sixteen inches ; weight seventeen 

 ounces. Bill above three inches long, straight, compressed on the 

 sides, and in old birds blunt at the end ; the colour of it and the 

 eyelids orange ; irides glowing crimson ; the head and neck are 



