Genus IsBIpORHYNCHA. 
CuHARACTERES GENERICI. 
Rostrum gracile, elongatum, deorsim curvatum, Ibidis Numeniique rostris simile; naribus 
lateralibus, longitudinalibus, membrana per totam longitudinem clausis. 
Corpus gracile, Grallatorum typicorum formam exhibens. 
Ale subelongatz, subgradate ; remigzbus secundis et tertiis eequalibus longissimis, prima. pauld 
breviori, caeteris gradatim decrescentibus. 
Pedes mediocres, tridactyli, Hamatopodum pedibus simillimi ; dégétis internis liberis, externis 
membrana usque ad pollicem primam connexis, omnibus marginatis ; wngaebus obtusis. 
Cauda medioeris, zequalis. 
TaB. LX XIX. 
IBIDORHYNCHA STRUTHERSII. 
Ibid. corpore supra colloque in fronte pallidé grisets ; corpore subtis albo ; capitis vertice, facie 
guttureque ngris albo variegatis ; torque pectoral subgracili, ad nucham extendente latior:, 
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uropygroque extremo atris ; rectricebus medus fusco obscuré undulatim fasciatis, prope apicem 
mgro notats, lateralium pogonis externis albis nigro fasciatis. 
Longitudo corporis, 14 unc. 
Turovexour the whole of our new discoveries in the vast district which has furnished the subject of the 
present work, it would be difficult to pomt out a more interesting species than that before us, or one which 
has supplied ornithological science with characters more striking and peculiar. It may be observed to form 
a union between two groups generally considered as widely separated from each other; the body, the general 
form, and the legs of the Ldedorhyncha Struthers: being similar to those of the Hematopus, while the bill is 
strictly that of the /é%s. We were not so fortunate as to include the present bird in our own collection from 
the Himalaya ; and it is to the kindness of Dr. Scouler, of the Addisonian Museum of Glasgow,—who received 
it from Mr. Struthers, the gentleman who collected it, and whose name forms its specific appellation,—that 
we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. Its habits and manners remain yet to be discovered and 
recorded. 
The forehead, top of the head, and the throat, are black ; a black band extends from the sides of the mantle 
across the chest; the neck is pale cinereous; the upper plumage ashy grey; the tail barred with irregular 
lines of black, the outer feathers being white with regular bars, and tipped, as are several of the succeeding, 
with black ; the under surface is white ; the beak and tarsi red. 
The figure represents the bird of its natural size. 
