1 8 (EDICNEMIDiE. 



2. BURHINUS*. _, 



Type. 

 Burhinus, Illiger, Prodr. p. 250 (1811) B. grallarius. 



Range. The same as that of the single species. 



1. Burhinus grallarius. 



Atjstealian Thick-knee. 

 Great-billed Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl.n. p. 319 (1801). 

 High-legged Plover, Lath. t. c. p. 319 (1801 : New South Wales). 

 Bridled Plover, Lath. t. c. p. 320 (New South Wales). 

 Charadrius magnirostris {nee Vieill.), Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppt. p. lxvi 



(1801). 

 Charadrius grallarius, Lath. Lnd. Orn. Suppl. p. lxvi (1801). 

 Charadrius frenatus, Lath. op. cit. p. lxvii (1801). 

 CEdicnemus longipes, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxiii. p. 232 (1818) ; 



Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 386 (1826) ; Vieill. Gal. des Ois. ii. p. 84, 



pi. 228 (1834) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. R. p. 35 (1888). 

 CEdicnemus magnirostris (nee Geoff")-.), Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. 



xi. pt. 2, p. 462 (1819 : New South Wales). 

 Himantopus grallarius, Stephens, in Slum's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 184 



(1824: New Holland). 

 Burhinus nova? hollandi;e, Stephens, in Sha2v's Gen. Zool. xiv. pt. 1, 



p. 342 (1826 : New Holland ). 

 Charadrius giganteus, Wagl. Lsis, 1829, p. 647 (Australia). 

 (Edicnernus grallarius, Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 59 (1844) ; 



id. Gen. R. iii. p. 535 (1844); Gould, R. Austr. vi. pi. 5 (1848) ; 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Rerol. p. 93 (1854) ; Sehl. Mus. Pays- 



Ras, Cursores, p. 18 (1865: Australia) ; Gould, Handb. R. Austr. 



ii. p. 210 (1865) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 186G, p. 334 (Port Denison) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. R. iii. p. 10, no. 9947 (1871) ; Hurting, P. Z. S. 



1874, p. 459 (W. Australia, breeding, Sept.-Oct.) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 



1877, p. 335 (Queensland) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. 



p. 59 (1877 : Percy Is., N.E. Coast) ; Ramsay, op. cit. ii. p. 106 



(1878); Masters, t. c. p. 275 (Tort Darwin'); Nehrk. J. f. O. 



1879, p. 408; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 590 (1882); Meyer, 



Sitzb. u. Abh. Ges. Isis, 1884, p. 215 (Timor-laut) ; North, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. (2) i. p. 1170 (1886, eggs) ; Ramsav, op. cit. 



(2) ii. p. 171 (N.W. Australia); id. Tab. List Austr." R. p. 19 



(1888: nearly the whole of Australia) ; Seebohm, Geoqr. Distr. 



Charadr. p. 83 (1888) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. (2) iii. 



p. 1778 (1889 : Cumberland Co., N. S. W.) ; Cox # Hamilton, op. 



cit. (2) iv. p. 419 (1890 : Mudgee Distr.) ; Salvad. Ayyiunte Orn. 



Pap. iii. p. 198 (1891). 



* This generic name is in general use and must therefore be employed ; but 

 in strictness it should be rejected, as it was not founded by Illiger on an 

 actual specimen, but on the description of Latham's 'Great-billed Plover' 

 (Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 319). This description is evidently taken from a 

 coloured figure and not from a bird, and, moreover, he describes the bill as 

 "very broad, resembling the Tody genus." It is on this statement that 

 Illiger founded the genus Burhinus. Latham further described his ' Great-billed 

 Plover ' as being of the size of the ' Golden Plover ' : further evidence that 

 Latham himself never saw the bird. For the rest, the description is evidently 

 that of the Australian Thick-knee. 



