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TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCUS. 
pale inky purple; they sometimes are confluent round the larger end, and are never very large or bold. He 
gives the average of eggs found in India as 1‘46 by TOG inch. 
A fine series in the collection of Mr. Seebohm, from Europe, vary in colour from greyish buff to stone- 
white. Some are marked at the large end with large blotches of deep brownish red, the rest of the egg having 
small specks and marks of the same openly distributed over the surface, under which are numerous primary 
markings of bluish grey: others have no large blotches, but are openly spotted with brownish red and bluish 
grey ; they have the appearance of pointed eggs of the Rallidae, the ground-colour being exactly that of some 
of the eggs of that family. They vary in length from 1‘38 to T53 inch, and in breadth from TO to IT. 
Genus MACHETES*. 
Bill moderately long, flexible, slightly curved, the tip somewhat bent down ; upper mandible 
channelled nearly to the tip, gape placed far forward ; nostrils linear, near the base. Wings long, 
pointed, with the 1st quill the longest. Tail short. Legs moderately short. Tarsus exceeding 
the middle toe and claw, and protected with transverse scutes. Toes moderate ; outer connected 
to the middle by a small web ; hind toe small. 
Male much larger than the female ; neck furnished in the breeding-season with a handsome 
outspreading ruff, aud the lores with small tubercles. 
* The genera Machetes, Tringa, and Calidris (Sanderling) are placed by some authors in the subfamily TringinEe ; 
tlie differences in the feet of each of them from those of the members of the group just dealt with are, however, merely 
generic. 
