1"). ZO.MK1.R. 155 



Soc. N.S.W.i. p. 187 (1877 : N.S.W., Victoria, and S. Australia, 

 Tasmania) ; id. i.e. p. 217 : id. op. tit. ii. p. 197(1878: Rockingham 

 Bay j Port. Denison; Wide Bay distr. ; Ilichinoiul and Clarence 

 Rivers) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 1173 (1887) ; 

 Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. />'. p. 19 (1888: Interior; Victoria; 

 S. Australia ; W. & S.W. Australia) ; North, Rests 8f Eggs Austr. 

 B. p. 802, pi. xvii. flg. 6(1889); id. Proc. Linn. Soc. K. S. W. (2) 

 iii. p. 177s ( 1889) ; Cox $ Hamilton, op. tit. (2) iv. p. 419 (1890 : 

 Muclgee distr.); Let/ye, I'mc. Austr. Assoc. 1692, p. 43. 



Hoplopterus tricolor (V.), Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 542 (1847). 



Charadrius vanelloides, Peak, U.8.Expl. Exped. Zool. p. 240 (1848 : 

 Argyle, N.S.W. ). 



LobivanelluB pectoralis, Schl. Mm. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 05 (1865 : 

 Port Essington ; Tasmania) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 

 p. 200 (1888). 



Hoplopterus pectoralis, Gray, Hand-!. B. iii. p. 13, no. 9976 (1871). 



Chettuaia (Lobivanellus) pectoralis, Finsch, Proc. Acad. Philad. 

 1872, p. 32 (Australia). 



Adult. General colour above brown, glossed with purplish 

 bronze ; wing-coverts like the back, the median series tipped with 

 white, before which is a sub-marginal bar of black ; the greater 

 coverts pure white, with a little brown at the base ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, the primaries white at the 

 extreme base ; secondaries black, white at the base, the white 

 gradually increasing towards the inner secondaries, which become 

 white with an oblique terminal mark of black, and finally the inner 

 ones are pure white ; the innermost brown like the back, but with 

 a white margin, preceded by a sub-marginal black line near the 

 end of the outer web ; lower back and rump dusky brown, duller 

 than the back ; sides of rump and upper tail-coverts pure white ; 

 basal half of tail white, the terminal half black with a white tip, 

 the black band decreasing in width towards the outer feathers ; 

 crown of head and nape glossy blue-black; the hind-neck and 

 upper mantle lighter and more ashy-brown than the back ; behind 

 the eye a broad streak of white; cheeks and entire throat white, 

 encircled by a broad band of black, which extends from the base of 

 the bill, below the eye, and across the ear-coverts down the sides 

 of the neck on to the fore-neck and breast, where it widens and 

 forms a very broad pectoral band ; remainder of under surface of 

 body, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries, pure white: 

 "tip of upper mandible horn-colour; the remainder of the bill 

 beautiful primrose-yellow ; naked parts of the thigh and knees 

 dark pink : tarsi and toes blackish brown, the latter inclining to 

 pink-red ; iris yellow, surrounded by a rim of deep primrose 

 extending in an oblique direction to the fleshy protuberance at the 

 base of the upper mandible, which is blood-red in the male, much 

 |ighter or flesh-red in the female" (J. Gould). Total length 10-5 

 inches, culmen L*05, wing 7 - 4, tail 3*2, tarsus L*9. 



Nestling. Band; brown with black markings: a white collar 

 round the hind-neck; under surface white, with a broad black 

 collar on the breast. 



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