Genus IsiporRHvNcHA.

CHaractTeres GENERICI.

Rostrum gracile, elongatum, deorsim -curvatum, bzdis Numeniique rostris simile; naribus
lateralibus, longitudinalibus, membranA per totam longitudinem clausis.

Corpus gracile, Grallatorum typicorum formam exhibens.

Ale subelongate, subgradate ; remigibus secundis et tertiis eequalibus longissimis, prima pauld
breviori, caeteris gradatim decrescentibus.

Pedes mediocres, tridactyli, Hamatopodum pedibus simillimi ; digitis mnternis liberis, externis
membrana usque ad pollicem primam connexis, omnibus marginatis ; unguibus obtusis.

Cauda mediocris, aqualis.

TaB. LX XIX.
IBIDORHYNCHA STRUTHERSII.

Ibid. corpore supra colloque in fronte pallidé griseis ; corpore subtius albo ; capitis vertice, facre
guttureque nigris albo variegatis ; torque pectoral subgracili, ad nucham eatendente latiore,
uropygiogue extremo atris ; rectricibus medis fusco obscure undulatim fasciatis, prope apicem

NIQTo notatis, lateralium pogonis externis albis negro fascratis.

Longitudo corporis, 14 unc.

Turoucuout the whole of our new discoveries in the vast district which has furnished the subject of the
present work, it would be difficult to pomt out a more interesting species than that before us, or one which
has supplied ornithological science with characters more striking and peculiar. It may be observed to form
a union between two groups generally considered as widely separated from each other; the body, the general
form, and the legs of the Lbidorhyncha Struthers being similar to those of the He@matopus, while the bill is
strictly that of the Jds. We were not so fortunate as to include the present bird in our own coilection from
the Himalaya ; and it is to the kindness of Dr. Scouler, of the Addisonian Museum of Glasgow,—who received
it from Mr. Struthers, the gentleman who collected it, and whose name forms its specific appellation,—that
we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. Its habits and manners remain yet to be discovered and
recorded.

The forehead, top of the head, and the throat, are black; a black band extends from the sides of the mantle
across the chest; the neck is pale cinereous ; the upper plumage ashy grey; the tail barred with irregular
lines of black, the outer feathers being white with regular bars, and tipped, as are several of the succeeding,
with black ; the under surface is white ; the beak and tarsi red.

The figure represents the bird of its natural size.