140 



CHARADRIID.K 



confined to a black terminal band ; lower back and rump brown, 

 like tbe back, the sides of the rump and upper tail-coverts pure 

 white : tail white, with a broad black band at the end, this black 

 band decreasing in width towards the outer feathers, which have 

 the white band at the tip rather broader ; crown of head black, ex- 

 tending backwards and joining a black band which extends across 

 the hind-neck, and descends on the sides of the neck so as to unite 

 with a black patch on the sides of the upper breast ; base of fore- 

 head, lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts, as well as the entire under 

 surface of the body, white, including the under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ; quill-lining black : " bill pale yellow, with a horn-coloured 

 tip ; tarsi purplish red ; scales black ; spur yellow ; iris rich primrose- 

 yellow ; wattles primrose-yellow " (J. Gould) Total length 14 

 inches, culmen 1/4, wing 9-6, tail 4-2, tarsus 3. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 14 

 inches, culmen 1*4, wing 92, tail 4, tarsus 3. 



Hah. Australia generally. Accidental in New Zealand. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



b. J ad. sk. Australia. Seebohm Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.J. 



d. e. $ ad. sk. Port Lincoln, S. Australia. Hume ("oil. 

 /. Ad. sk. Port Philip. Gould Coll. 



g, h. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Australian Museum [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



k,l. Ad.sk. Gippshmd Lakes. Seebohm Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Wide Lay, Queensland, Seebohm Coll. 



Nov. 



7i,o. Ad.sk. Queensland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Lobivanellus miles. 



Le Yanneau arme" de la Loidsiane, Briss. Orn. v. p. 114, pi. viii. 



lig. 2 (1760) ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 65 (1781); DAubent. 



Ft. Enl. viii. pi. 835. 

 Tringa miles, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 51 (1783). 

 Louisiaue Sandpiper, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 164 (1785). 

 Parra ludoviciana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 700 (1788). 

 Tringa ludoviciana, Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 727 (1790). 

 Vanellus ludovicianus, Vieill. N. Diet, d 1 Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 203 



(1819) ; id. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1075 (182.3). 

 Charadrius callaeas, Wagl. Syst. Av. Charadrius, p. 76, sp. 52 (1827). 

 Charadiius ludovicianus, Nitzsch, in Ersch ty Grub. Encycl. xvi. 



p. 150 (1827). 

 Lobivanellus ludovicianus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33. 

 Lobivanellus personatus, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 113 (N. coast of 



Australia) ; id. B. Austr. vi. pi. 10 (1842) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. 



Mus. p. 66 (1844: Port Essington); Reichenb. Grail. Taf. ciii. 



figs. 1055-56 (1848) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 220 (1865) ; 



Finsch, Neu-Giiinea, p. 181 (1865: Amboinaj; JRosenb. Reis naar 



Zuidoostereil. pp. 53, 82 (1867: Aru ; Kei) ; D'Alb. Ann. Mus. 



Gen. x. p. 20 (1877 : Ely & Katau Livers) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. 8. W. i. p. 187 (1877: N. Australia); Seebohm, Geogi-. 



Distr. Charadr. p. 188 (I 



