126 CHAKADRILD^l. 



Young. Above brown, a little more dusky on tbe mantle and 

 greater coverts ; quills and tail-feathers as in the adult, but several 

 of the latter with brown marks near the end of the outer web ; 

 sides of face brown ; cheeks and throat white ; chest-band brown, 

 with a band of blackish feathers across the fore-neck ; the chestnut 

 patch on the sides of the body less extended and paler : under tail- 

 coverts spotted with brown ; remainder of under surface of body 

 white, the coverts round the bend of the wing dark brown. 



Hah. Australia only. South Australia to New South "Wales and 

 north to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and N.W. Australia. Mr. Gould 

 says that this species is a summer visitor to New South Wales, and 

 Mr. Seebohm states that it winters in Queensland, on what authority 

 I have been unable to discover. Mr. Eamsay does not include it 

 in the Queensland list at all. 



5. DEFILIPPIA. 



Type. 

 Nomusia, Heugl. MSS. 1859 (teste Heugl. 1873: 



nomen nudum). 

 Hemiparra, Be Filippi, Atti Soc. Ital. viii. p. 270 



(1865 : nomen nudum) D. crassirostris. 



Defilippia, Salvad. Atti Soc. Ital. viii. p. 373 (1865). D. crassirostris. 

 Limnetes, Finsch fy Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 640 (1870). D. leucoptera. 



Range. From the Upper White Nile district throughout the whole 

 of Eastern Africa as far south as Natal. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Secondaries blackish, with a little white at 



the extreme base crassirostris, p. 126. 



b. Secondaries pure white leucoptera, p. 127. 



1. Defilippia crassirostris. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 



Chettusia crassirostris, Be Filippi in Hartl. J.f. O. 1855, p. 427 ; 



Antin. Cat. descr. Vcc. p. 98 (1864 : Khartoum ; Sobat River) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 11, no. 9958 (1871, pt.). 

 Vanellus lnacrocercus, Heugl. Sxjst. Uebers. p. 55 (1856: White 



Nile, from 10°S.lat.) ; id. J.f. 0. 1863, p. 163 (Gazelle River). 

 Chettusia macrocerca, Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 419 (1856). 

 Hemiparra crassirostris, Be Filippi, Atti S'oc. Ital. Sri. Nat. viii. 



p. 370 (1865 : descr. nulla) ; Heugl. inPeterm. Mitth. 1869, p. 415 ; 



