Rhynchops nigra

Etymology
From +, named by Linnaeus.

Proper noun

 * 1)  sometimes mistakenly applied to the Indian skimmer, now known as.
 * 2) * 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
 * Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants, pelicans, cormorants, cranes (, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
 * Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants, pelicans, cormorants, cranes (, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.