302 CHAKADRnD^. 



18. JEgialitis cucullatus. 



Charadrius cucullatus, Vieill. N. Diet. cVHist. Nat. xxvii. p. 136 

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



Charadrius monachus, Wagl. Syst. Av., Charadrius, p. 60, sp. 15 

 (1827) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 545 (1831) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bat, 

 Cursores, p. 35 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 16, no. 10007 

 (1871) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Disir. Charadr. p. 127, pi. v. (1888). 



yEgialitis nionachus, Gould, Syn. B. Austr. pi. 32. fig. 2 (1837) ; id. 

 B. Austr. part 2, pi. 10 (1838, cancelled) ; id. Handb. B. Austr. 

 ii. p. 231 (1865) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. p. 197 

 (1878), vii. p. 57 (1883 : egg) ; North, op. cit. (2) i. p. 1164 

 (1887) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 (1888 : Wide Bay 

 distr. ; Richmond and Clarence Rivers ; N. S. W. ; Victoria ; 

 Tasmania ; W. Australia) ; North, Nests ty Eyys Austr. B. p. 304 

 (1889) ; Heine 8f Reichen. NomencI, Mus. Hein. p. 336 (1890) 

 Leyye, Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 39. 



Hiaticula monacha, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1844) 

 Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 18 (1848) ; Reichenb. Vbg. Neuholl. p. 207 

 (1850). 



Hiaticula cucullata, Licht, NomencI. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 94 (1854). 



Leucopolius monachus, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



Adult male. General colour above pale ashy grey, the rump ashy 

 only in the middle, the sides being white ; wing-coverts like the 

 back, but the median series rather lighter, the greater series broadly 

 tipped with white; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish brown, and slightly fringed with white at the tips ; the 

 quills with a large white patch across both webs, including the 

 shaft, and leaving the end of the feather blackish ; the secondaries 

 white, with a sub-terminal mark of brown, decreasing gradually in 

 extent and becoming obsolete on the inner secondaries, which are 

 pure white ; the innermost long secondaries ashy like the back ; 

 central upper tail-coverts blackish brown, the lateral ones white ; 

 centre tail-feathers blackish brown, the others white for the most 

 part and tipped with white, before which is a sub-terminal band of 

 blackish brown, which becomes gradually smaller towards the 

 outer feathers, which are entirely white ; crown of head and nape, 

 as well as the sides of the face, sides of neck and throat, black, 

 enclosing a broad white collar round the hind-neck, which is 

 followed by a black mantle-patch, which joins the black throat 

 laterally ; a whitish spot below the eye ; remainder of under surface 

 of body pure white, with a black patch on the sides of the chest ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white, like the quill-lining : 

 "bill rich orange at the base, passing into yellow and black at the 

 tip : legs flesh-colour ; eyelid rich reddish orange or scarlet ; iris 

 yellowish or orange-brown " (J. Gould). Total length 8-3 inches, 

 culmen 0'7, wing 5-4, tail 2*6, tarsus 1-05. 



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

 8 inches, wing 5-5. Mr. Gould says that the female differs from 

 the male in having the crown mottled with black and white, the 

 face and throat white, and in having only a narrow line of black 

 at the base of the neck behind. 



