L ; 0. 0CHTH0JDB0MU8. 213 



Butler, B. New Zeal, 2nd ed. p. 3 (1888) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Di&tr. 



Charadr. p. 149 (18S8) ; Etheridye, Lord Howe Isl. p. 17 (1889) ; 



Forbes, Ibis, L898, p. 528 (Chatham Id.). 

 Eudronrias xaiithocheilus (nee WayL), Gray, List Grallm Brit. 



Mus. p. 08 (1844 : Tasmania). 

 vEgialitis bicincta, Gould, Syn. Ii. Austr. pt. ii. pi. 82. fig:. 3 (1837) ; 



Hurting, Ibis, 1870, p. 202 ; Ramsay, 1'. Z. 8. \<7. p. 337 (Card- 

 well) ; id. Proc. Linn. Sue. -V. .V. II'. ii. p. 197(1878); Salvad. 



Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 305, note (1882) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. >S'. //". vii. p. 88 (1883 : Lord Howe Isl.) ; id. Tab. List Austr. 



B. p. 19 (1888 : nearly the whole of Australia ; S.E. New Guinea) ; 



Crowfoot, Ibis, 1885, p. 270 (Norfolk Isl.); Legye, Proc. Austr. 



Assoc. Sci. 1892, p. H8. 

 Hiaticula bicincta, Gray, J'oy. Ereb. § Terr., Birds, p. 12 (1840) ; 



Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 10 (1840) ; Reichenb. Vbg. Neuholl. p. 41 



(1850). 

 Ochthodromus bicinctus, Heine 4" Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



p. 337 (1890). 



Adult male in breeding-plvmuige. General colour above brown, 

 with a very evident green gloss, some of the feathers edged with 

 sandy rufous : wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts with 

 a narrow white tip, forming a narrow wing-bar; bastard-wing and 

 primary -coverts dark brown, the latter with white tips ; quills 

 brown, darker brown along the outer webs and at the ends ; the 

 primaries white-shafted, the inner oues also having a white base 

 to the outer web, forming a small wing-patch ; secondaries also 

 brown, the inner oues fringed with white near the end of the 

 outer w eb and white-shafted, the innermost ones like the back - y 

 rump and upper tail-coverts brown, the sides of the rump and the 

 lateral coverts white ; tail-feathers brown, tipped with white, 

 before which is a sub-terminal shade of darker brown, less distinct 

 on the outer feathers, the outermost white, with a shade of smoky 

 brown on the inner web ; crown of head brown like the back, 

 separated from the white forehead and eyebrow by a band of black : 

 lores and feathers round the eye black ; sides of face and sides of 

 neck brown ; throat white, separated from the brown face by a 

 line of black, which skirts the throat along the cheeks and down 

 the sides of the neck, and joins a broad band across the fore- 

 neck ; the sides of this band brown ; across the chest a broad 

 white band followed by another broad crescentic band of deep 

 chestnut ; remainder of under surface of the body, as well as the 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries, pure white ; lower primary- 

 coverts and quill-lining ashy grey : " bill black, slightly tinged with 

 olive ; feet pale sickly yellowish white, the joints of toes and knees 

 browner; iris blackish brown; eyelid scarlet" (./. Gould). Total 

 length 7'.~> inches, culrnen 0-8, wing 4*95, tail 2'15, tarsus 1-25. 



Adult in winter 'plumage. Differs from the summer plumage iu 

 wanting tho bands of black and chestnut on the under surface, the 

 place of the black band on the fore-neck being indicated by a shade 

 of brown across this part ; entire upper surface dark brown, in- 

 cluding the head ; forehead white, but without the black band of 



