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F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kaclili. 
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892. A. ocintopus. Very common. 
The outermost tail feathers have as a rule a minute subterminal dark spot 
on the outer web, and the same applies to the longest upper tail-coverts. 
893. A. nvPor.EUCUS. Very common. 
894. Totautts glottis. Very common. 
Average measurements of four specimens : wing 7 '2 to 7'8 ; tail 3 2 to 
3'4, tarsus 24 to 2 6 ; hill at front 2T to 2 2 inch. Most of the upper tail 
coverts have dark cross bars, like the tail. There is a dusky streak from the 
base of the upper mandible towards the eye, superseded by a pure white band. 
Outer web of first minute primary and the shaft of the second, the longest 
one, white. 
896. T. Frscirs. Very raro. 
The middle tail feathers have in a specimen distinct dark cross bars 
along the margins of both webs. First long primary with a white shaft, all 
are towards the margins of the inner webs minutely variegated with white 
and dusky brown. 
897. T. CALiDitis. Eare. 
Wing 6'5, tail 2 '5, tarsus 2T, bill at front 1'8 inch. The first long 
primary has a white shaft, and all are albescent on the margin of the inner 
web ; lower tail coverts more or less streaked or spotted with dusky ; breast 
cinereous, all feathers dark-shafted. 
898. Himantopus iNTHUMKoms, Blyth. Very common. 
The birds with brownish back and scapulars, blackish hind-head, and with 
a grey neck, are young. In some specimens the whole neck is white and the 
occiput black. One adult male, shot in February, had the whole head white, 
somewhat dusky behind the eye,*on the occiput and a little lower below the 
occiput pure black, then purely white, back and wing glossy greenish black, 
rump white, tail ashy ; below entirely white. It is difficult to imagine what 
the specific distinction should be between such a bird and, for instance, Gould’s 
figure of II. autumnal is, Hasselq. = melunop terns, Tern., in 4 Birds of Europe.’ 
Gray (Hand-1., Ill, 47) quotes II candidus, Bonn., as synonym of the Eu- 
ropean autumnal is, reserving Blyth’s name intermedins for the Indian bird, 
but I do not think that the question as to the specific distinctness of the two 
can be considered as settled. 
As regards size I found in Kachh specimens the following variations : 
wing 9 to 97 ; tail 32 to 33, tarsus 4'25 to 53 ; bill 2‘5 to 3 inch. 
899. Eecubvibostba avocetta. Not common. 
In what appear to be rather young birds the dark upper coloration is 
mixed with brown, and the short wing coverts are mostly pale brown. 
An adult in full plumage, shot at the beginning of January, measures : wing 
9'3, tail 35, tarsus 37, bill in a straight line from front to tip 335, this 
