300 



CHARADRIID^. 



Charadrius sanctse helenpe, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 160 

 (1888). 



Total length 



Adult. Similar to ^E. pecuaria, but much, larger. 

 7*5 inches, culmen 0'9, wing 4*4, tail 2, tarsus 1*55. 

 Bab. Island of St. Helena. 



a, b. Ad. sk. St. Helena. Old Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. St. Helena. J. H. Le Keux, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Imm. sk. St. Helena. Dr. Gillespie [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. St. Helena. Seebohm Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 f,9- 6 2 ad. sk. St. Helena. Seebohm Coll. 



17. JEgialitis inelanops. 



Charadrius melanops, Vieill. N Diet. d'Sist. Nat. xxvii. p. 139 



(1818) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 544 (1847). 

 Charadrius nigrifrons, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 47. fig. 1 (1823) ; Less. 



Traite cVOrn. p. 544 (1831) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856) ; Schl. 



Mas. Bays-Bas, Cursores, p. 31 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 



p. 16, no. 10008 (1871). 

 ^giahtis nigrifrons. Bote, Isis, 1826, p. 978 ; Gould, Syn. B. Austr. 



pi. 32. fig. i ( 1837) . Gould ^ Snndh . B Austr . ii. p . 232 (1865) ; 



Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 334 (Port Denison) ; Bli/tn, Ibis, 1867, 



p vV Kartim J' p - % S. 1874, p. 459, pi. lx. n>. 9 ; Ramsay, 



R. Z. S. 1877, p. 337 (Queensland, breeding) ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. A. W. ii. p . 197 ( 18 78) ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 438 (1878), viii. 



?iocl (1879 ); M>rth, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. (2) i. p. 1164 



(188/); Ramsay, op. cit. (2) ii. p. 171 (1888: Derby, N.W. 



Au str.) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 (1888: Australia generally, 



except N. Austr. and Cape York) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. 



Charadr. p. 138 (1888) ; North, Nests # Eggs Austr. B. p. 304 



(1889); id. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) iii. p. 1778 (1889: 



, 1 "™ berland - N - S - W -) ; Cor # Hamilton, op. cit. (2) iv. p. 419 



(1890: Mudgee District); North, t. c. p. 1025 (Raeburne, N.W. 



Australia) ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 39. 

 Charadrius russatus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 213 (1840: Madras). 

 -Uiaticula nigrifrons, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 71 (1844) ; 



Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 20 (1845) ; Start, Exp. Ce n tr. Austr. ii. 



App. p. 49 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 264 (1849) ; 



Reiehenb. Vog. NeuhoU. p. 42 (1850) ; Lickt. Nomencl. Av. Mus. 



Berol. p. 94 (1854). 



Adult male. General colour above dark sandy brown, with darker 

 .°wn bases to the feathers ; rump slightly washed with rufous ; 

 sides of lower back and sides of rump white ; lesser wing-coverts 

 dark brown ; median and greater series ashy brown, with blackish 

 shaft-stripes, and mottled with the white inner webs to the 

 feathers : the greater coverts paler ashy brown, with white tips ; 

 scapulars deep maroon-chestnut, forming a conspicuous patch down 

 each side of the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries 

 black, the secondaries white on the inner web, dark brown on the 

 outer one, the brown decreasing in extent towards the inner 

 feathers till it becomes obsolete and disappears on the inner 



