2. HiEMATOPUS. 



119 



Adult female. Similar to tho male but somewhat moro sooty 

 brown and not so glossy black. Total length 17 inches, culmen3-2, 

 wing 11-2, tail 4-7, tarsus 2. 



Young. More dusky than the adults, and mottled with sandy 

 edgings to the feathers. 



Hal. Australia and New Zealand. 



a. Ad. st. 



6. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. <$ ad. sk. 



e. f. c? ad. et 

 iinm. sk. 



g. 2 ad. sk. 



h. Ad. sk. 

 t, k. c? ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 

 ii. Ad. sk. 

 <>. Ad. st. 

 p. Juv. St. 

 (j. 2 ad. sk. 



r, s, t. Ad. sk. 

 u. j ad. sk. 



v. Skull. 



New Zealand. 



New Zealand. 

 New Zealand. 

 New Zealand. 

 Hardy Bay, Derby Is., N. Z. 



Flinders' Is., Bass' Straits 



(F. 31. Bayner). 

 Tasmania. 

 Australia. 



New South Wales. 



New South Wales. 



Sydney. 



South Australia. 



South Is., Houtmans'Abrolhos. 



Rottness Is., W. Australia, 



Aug. 12. 

 Queensland (J. T. Cocker ell). 

 Trough ton Is.,N.W. Australia. 



Percy Earl, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



New Zealand Co. 



Sir E. Home [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 



Voy.H.M.S.'Herald.' 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Australian Museum 



Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dr. Bassett Smith 

 [P.]. 



Voy. H.M.S. 'Battle- 

 snake.' 



10. Haematopus moquini. 



Hsematopus niger (nee Pall.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 533 (1820) ; 

 Webb v.V Berth. Orn. Canar. p. 33 (1841) ; Gray, List GraUas 

 Brit. Mus. p. 73 (1844: Cape) ; Biipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 118 (1845 : 

 Dahalak Is.) ; Gray 8/ Mitchell, Gen. B. iii. pi. 146 (1847) ; Bolk, 

 J. f. O. 1855, p. 175 (Canary Is.); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 57 

 (1856: Dahalak, ex Biipp.) ; Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 420 (1856, pt.); 

 Bolle, J. f. 0. i857, p. 337 (Canary Is.) ; Schl. Mws. Pays-Bas, 

 Cursores, p. 76 (1865, pt.) ; Chapman, Trav S. Afr. ii. App. p. 416 

 (1868). 



Ostralega capensis, Licht. Vers, Doubl. p. 73 (1823: nom. nudum). 



Hsematopus capensis, Gray, Gen. Ii. iii. p. 547 (1847) ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 672 (1884); Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 1689. 

 pp. 13, 508 (Canary Is.), 1890, p. 437, 1893, p. 204 (Canary Is., 

 breeding). 



Hsematopus moquini, Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 1020 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. 

 W.-Afr. p. 218 (1857: Gaboon); Gurnet/, Ibis, 1862, p. 34 

 (Natal) : Lat/ard, B. S. Afr.y. 300 (1807) ; Gray, Hand-/. B. iii. 

 p. 22, no. L0064 (1>71) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 277 

 (1872: Walwisch Bay); Godman, Ibis, 1872, p. 220 (Tenerife, 

 breeding) : Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt, l,p. 1041 (1873) ; Koenig, 

 J. f. O. 1890, p. 297 (Madeira)." 



Melanibyx moquini, Reichenb. Grail, pi. 168. figs. 1042-43 (1651). 



