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1. Erythrogonys cinctus. 



Erythrogonys cinctus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 155 ; id. B. Austr. 



vi. pi. 2l (1841) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 66 (184 1 : 



Murray River) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 542 (1847) ; Reichenb. Grail. 



tab. 180. figs. 1950-60 (1848) ; id. Vbg. Neuholl. p. 32 (1850) ; 



Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 419 (1856) ; Gould, P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 233 



(Central Australia) ; id. Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 240 (1865) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 12, no. 9968 (1871) ; Runway, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 188 (1877: Queensland; New South Wales; 



Victoria ; S. Australia) ; id. op. cit. ii. p. 197 (1878 : Gulf 



of Carpentaria ; Richmond and Clarence Rivers) ; id. op. cit. 



vii. p. 412 (1883 : New South Wales, breeding) ; id. op. cit. (2) 



i. p. 1099 (1887 : Derby, N.W. Australia) ; North, t. c. p. 1167 ; 



Ramsay, op. cit. (2) ii. p. 171 (1888: Derby) ; id. Tab. List Austr. 



B. p. 20 (1888 : Derby, N.W. Australia ; Gulf of Carpentaria ; 



Richmond and Clarence Rivers ; New South Wales ; Interior ; 



Victoria ; S. Australia) ; North, Nests § Eggs Austr. B. p. 307, 



pi. xvi. fig. 5 (1889) ; Cox $ Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



(2) iv. p. 419 (1890 : Mudgee Distr.). 

 Vanellus rufiventer, Less. Echo du Monde Savant, 1844, p. 207. 

 Erythrogonys cinctus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 95 (1854 : 



Australia). 

 Vanellus cinctus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 59 (1865 : 



Australia). 



Adult male. General colour above bronzy brown, slightly washed 

 •with ashy ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series fringed 

 with white at the ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish brown, the inner primaries and all the secondaries broadly 

 tipped with white, forming a wide band ; innermost long secondaries 

 brown like the back ; centre of lower back, rump, and median upper 

 tail-coverts blackish brown, the sides of the back and of the rump, 

 as well as the lateral upper tail-coverts, pure white ; centre tail- 

 feathers brown, the rest pure white, with a little brown on the 

 outer edge of the external feather ; a small patch below the eye, 

 cheeks, throat, and sides of neck pure white ; crown of head and 

 sides of face black, extending over the hind-neck and down the 

 sides of the neck, and joining a broad band of black which occupies 

 the whole of the fore-neck and chest and extends along the sides of 

 the latter ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the latter 

 being streaked with brown, slightly tinged with rufous ; on each of 

 tlie flanks a patch of bright chestnut ; sides of body, under wing- 

 coverts, and axillarics pure white, the coverts round the bend of the 

 wing black: "bill pulpy, pink-red at base, black at the tip; thigh, 

 knee, and for a quarter of an inch down the tarsus pink-red, the 

 remainder of the tarsus and the toes bluish lead-colour" (J. Gould). 

 Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-S5, wing 4-3, tail D85, tarsus 1*6. 



Sexes alike in colour, according to Mr. Gould. Many specimens, 

 with the black chest and chestnut flank-patch, have the crown of 

 the head bronzy brown. It may, however, be some time before the 

 full black head is assumed, as the lores are partly whitish, which 1 

 take to be a sign of immaturity. 



