212 CHAEADRIID-E. 



upper tail- coverts dusk)- brown, the latter fringed with white at 

 the ends, the lateral ones white along the outer webs ; wing-coverts 

 more ashy brown than the back, the median and greater series 

 margined with hoary white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish, with white fringes at the ends ; tbe primaries white- 

 shafted and lighter brown along the inner web, inclining to whitish 

 at the base, leaving the outer web and the tips blackish, the inner 

 primaries white at the base externally, forming a wing-patch ; 

 secondaries brown, white at the base, and edged with white, this 

 white gradually increasing on the outer web, till it occupies the 

 whole of it on the inner quills, which are also white at the ends ; 

 the innermost long secondaries brown like the back ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, whitish at the ends, the outer feathers smoky-brown, 

 white at the tip and along the margins of both webs ; base of fore- 

 head dingy white, as well as a broad eyebrow ; lores, fore part of 

 cheeks, and sides of face dusky brown, mottled with buff below the 

 eye ; hinder cheeks, throat, and under surface of body cinnamon- 

 rufous, white on the lower flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quill-lining white ; lower 

 primary-coverts light ashy, like the quills below : " bill black ; feet 

 leaden-grey; iris black "' ( W. L. Butler). Total length 10 inches, 

 culmen 1-1, wing 6 - 5, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 1'5. 



Adult in winter plumage. Differs from the summer plumage in 

 being darker ashy brown above, without the rufous margins to the 

 feathers : lores and eyebrow, as well as the under surface of the 

 body, white, with a band of ashy brown across the lower throat. 



Hab. New Zealand. Drs. Heine and Eeichenow record a speci- 

 men in the " Museum Heineanurn " from New " Ireland," but this 

 is doubtless a mistake for New " Zealand."' 



a, b. Ad. hiem. New Zealand. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 

 st. 



c . Ad. festiv. st. New Zealand. Percy Earl, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Imm. sk. New Zealand. New Zealand Co. 



[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Seebohm Coll. 



/, g, k. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



i. Ad. asstiv. sk. New Zealand. Tweeddale Coll. 



k. 5 ad. asstiv. Otago, N. Z., Nov. Hume Coll. 



sk. 



/. Ad. hiem. sk. Port Cooper, N. Z. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



2. Ochthodromus bicinctus. 



Charadrius bicinctus, Jard. 8? Selly, III. Orn. i. pi. 28 (1825) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 544 (1847) ; Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 417 (1856) ; Schl. 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 37 (1865: Tasmania; Lord Howe 

 Id.) ; Potts, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. ii. p. 67 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l.B. 

 iii. p. 16, no. 10013 (1871) ; Finseh. J. f. O. 1873, p. 169 ; Bailer, 

 B. N. Zeal. p. 211 (1873) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1874, p. 193 ; Sharpe, 

 Voy. Freb. $■ Terr., App. p. 29 (1875); Finsch, Ibis, 1882, p. 399 

 (X.' Zeal.); id. Voq. der Siidsee, p. 84 (1884: N. Zealand); 



