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COROMANDEL
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D e s c r i p t io n ,
Place.
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SCOLOPACE-
OÜS H.
Description.
fpace between the bill and eye, and round the laft, is quite covered
with feathers : the general colour of the bird is a dirty,
cinereous greys but the quills are black, and greatly exceed the
tail in length : the legs are yellowilh, and teflellated their whole
length, as is the bare part of the thighs : the claws are fmall and
black, the middle claw not ferrated.
Inhabits Pondicherry, and other parts of the Eaft Indies.
Le Bec-ouvert des Indes, Son• Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 219« pi. 219.
|~~^IFFERS from the laft, in that the edge of the upper mandible
is ferrated from the middle to the end, the toes united
at the bafe to the firft joint, and the wings reach only to the
tail : the head, rump, belly, and wing coverts, are whites thofe
of the head are ftiort, narrow, and ereft: the back, quills, and
tail, black: from the bafe o f the bill to the eye, bare and black;
this black bare fpace alfo extends round the throat: the bill is
rufous yellow : irides red : legs rufous yellow.
Found on the coaft of Coromandel, in September, October, and
November. Frequents, like the Heron, the borders' of rivers and
ponds, for the fake of filh and reptiles, which are its food.
Le Courlan, on Courliri, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 442.— PI. Enl. 848.
H I S is a large bird, almoft equalling an Heron in lize: the
length twenty-five inches. Bill four inches long, reddilh.
with a blueilh point s it is rather flout at the bafe, and nearly
ftrait, but inclines downward towards the tip : on the upper
mandible is a long furrow two thirds of the length of the bill
in which the noftrils are placed, thefe feem to be a flit only!
round
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round the eye bare * of feathers, and of a reddilh brown colour:
the plumage in general is brown, gloffed with a reddifh copper-
colour on the quills and tail: moft of the feathers of the upper
part have the edges paler than the reft of the feathers; and thofe
of the neck and breaft are ftreaked with white down the lhaft:
the chin white: the naked parts of the thighs and legs are white:
the toes are not joined by a membrane at the bafe, but the middle
claw is pectinated on the inner margin, where it riles into an
edge.
This inhabits Cayenne, and is a doubtful fpecies, hanging be- Place.
tween the Heron and- Curlew, but feems moft allied to the
former.
* Not clear, it feems to be fo in the PL EhI.
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