. The genera of birds : comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of the genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera . s length, angulated, and advancing upwards to the tip ; thenostrils placed in a membranous groove, rather less than half the length of the bill, with the aperturelongitudinal, anterior, and near the margin. They inhabit the wide sandy banks of the larger rivers of India during the winter, and, as the summer advances,migrate to the northern parts of India. Their food consists of crabs and other hard shellfish. They are also foundin
. The genera of birds : comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of the genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera . s length, angulated, and advancing upwards to the tip ; thenostrils placed in a membranous groove, rather less than half the length of the bill, with the aperturelongitudinal, anterior, and near the margin. They inhabit the wide sandy banks of the larger rivers of India during the winter, and, as the summer advances,migrate to the northern parts of India. Their food consists of crabs and other hard shellfish. They are also foundin the Indian Archipelago and Australia. 1. Es. recurvirostris (Cuv.) Less. — Carvanaca grisea Hodgs.;(Edicnemus recurvirostris 2. Es. niagnirostris (Geoff.) Temm. PI. col. 387. * The type of Illigers genus Burhinus, which was established in 1811 on Lathams short description, taken from the badly executeddrawing referred to above. f This is coequal with Carvanaca, of Mr. Hodgson, published in the Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1836, p. 776. In 1841 he changed it toPseudops. M. Lessons name was published in 1831, in his Traite dOrnithologic, p. 547. May, £ SAC US MCZ LIBRARYHARVARD UNIVERSITYCAMBRIDGE. MA USA Order VII. GRALLiE. Family I. Char abridge. The second Subfamily, CURSORINiE, or Coursers, have the Bill moderate, slender, with the basal portion of the culmen weak, and somewhat cultratedabove the nostrils, beyond which it is slightly arched to the tip ; the nostrils lateral, placed in a short,subtriangular, membranous groove, with the opening longitudinal and exposed; the Wings lengthenedand pointed; the Tail short ; and the Legs lengthened, scutellated in front and behind, and with onlythree slender toes in front. Pluvianus Vieill.* Bill shorter than the head, strong, broad at the base, and much compressed towards the tip, theculmen at the base rather compressed to the front of the nostrils, and arched from thence to the tip, thelateral margins nearly straight a
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