Gentjs — E U P 0 D A . 
Etjpoda Brandt, in Tchihatcheff’s Voy. Sci. Altai Orient, 
p. 444, 1845 
. . Type E, asiatica. 
Medium-sized Plovers with long slender bills, long wings, long legs, and 
small feet. 
The culmen is long and slender, the dertrum little swollen, much longer 
than the middle toe. Wing long and pointed, first primary longest. Tail 
short and sMghtly rounded. The metatarsus is very long, more than twice 
as long as the middle toe and about twice as long as the culmen. 
Compare figures given on p. 83, ante. 
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