ARUSTRONG'S YELLOWSHANKS, 
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Pseudototanus* haughtoni, Armstrong. 
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Vernacular Names.—[None. |] 
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ices) HIS rare, or at any rate hitherto little noticed 
i~Ne species, was first obtained by Dr. Armstrong on the 
18th of December 1875, near the mouth of the 
Rangoon River, between Elephant Point and China 
RSiuay Bakeer. At that time he only secured two specimens. 
“gates = In December 1876 and January 1877 he succeeded 
Se in shooting four more specimens in the neighbour- 
hood of Amherst. In December 1877, I procured one mangled 
specimen in the Calcutta market. 
No other instances of the occurrence of this species within 
our limits, or elsewhere, have, so far as I know, as yet been 
recorded. 
LITTLE PRACTICALLY is known of the habits of this species. 
The specimens obtained were found feeding on extensive sand 
banks in company with large flocks of Sand Plovers and other 
waders, and the hard-pointed, non-sensitive bill indicates suffi- 
ciently a habit of surface feeding, as opposed to the mud-boring 
of the last species. 
Dr. Armstrong writes to me: “ With regard to the habits of 
the species all that have been killed by me both at China, 
Be-keer, Beloo Gyoon, and Amherst, have been upon 
* I established this genus for the reception of this species, S. F., VII., 488, 
(December Ist, 1878). ‘The following is my definition of the genus which I repro- 
duce (vide, loc. cit. sup. eS. F., 1V., 1876, 347) :-— 
Bill considerably longer than the head, stout, nearly straight, but the culmen per- 
ceptibly recurved, tapering quite at the base, after that of nearly uniform width 
throughout, rather obtusely pointed just at the tip, which is bent down over the 
lower mandible ; culmen broad, slightly flattened towards the tip ; nostrils, lateral, 
sub-basal (commencing nearly a quarter of an inch from the base) placed in a mem- 
braneous groove which extends rather beyond half the length of the bill (say 
11-2oths.) ; palate armed with a double row of recurved horny papillze; the wings 
reaching considerably beyond the end of the tail and pointed ; the first quill longest ; 
tail moderate and nearly even ; tarsi slender, one-fifth longer than mid-toe and claw, 
covered in front by numerous narrow faintly marked scales ; toes slender, moderately 
long ; anterior toes united by a membrane, which extends from the first joint of the 
middle toe to the first joint of the inner, and nearly, if not quite, to the second joint 
of the outer one; hind toe long, slender, somewhat elevated. 
