304 CHAEADEIID^;. 



remainder of under surface of body, including the under wing- and 

 tail-coverts, white : " iris, legs, and feet, pink " (J. Young). ^ Total 

 length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 5-35, tail 235, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Patagonia. 

 a. Ad. sk. Patagonia. Capt. King [P.]. 



34. THINORNIS. 



Thinornis, Gray, Voy. Ereb. fy Terr., Birds, p. 11 

 (1846) 



Type. 

 T. novae zealandiae. 



Mange. Confined to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. 



1. Thinornis novae zealandiae. 



New Zealand Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. i06, pi. lxxxiii. 



(1785 : Queen Charlotte's Sound). 

 Charadrius nova? zealandiae, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 684 (1788) ; Vieill. 

 N Diet, a" Hist. Nat. xxvii. p. 143 (1818) ; Seebohm, Geoyr. 

 Distrib. Charadr. p. 128 (1888). 

 Charadrius dudoroa, Way I. Syst. Av., Charadrius, p. 60, sp. 14 



(1827). 

 Hiaticula novae zealandiae, Gray in Dieffenb. Trav. N. Zeal. n. 



App. p. 195 (1843). 

 Charadrius torquatula, Forst. Icon. ined. tab. 121 ; id. Descr. Amm. 



p. 108 (1844). 

 Thinornis novae zealandiae, Gray, Voy. Ereb. fy Terr., Birds, p. 12, 

 pi ii. (1846) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 545 (1847) ; Bp. C. B. xliii. 

 p. 417 (1856) ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 234 ; Hutton, Ibis, 1870, p. 394 

 {Great Barrier Isl.) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1870, p. 431 ; Gray, Hand-L 

 B. iii. p. 17, no. 10022 (1871) ; Hutton, Ibis, 1872, p. 246 

 (Mangare, Chatham Isl.) ; Buller, B. New Zeal. p. 214, pi. 23 

 (1873) ; Hutton, Ibis, 1874, p. 34 ; Potts, Zool. 1875, p. 4485 : 

 Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. $ Terr., Birds, App. p. 29 (1875) ; Potts, Zool. 

 1885", p. 422 ; Buller, B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 11, pi. 26. fig. 1 

 (1888) ; H. O. Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 528, pi. xiv. figs. 5, 6 (eggs), 

 pi. xv. fig. 2 (pull.). 

 ? Charadrius atricinctus, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7469 (New Zealand). 

 Strepsilas novae zealandiae, Sehl. Sfics. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 45 

 (1865 : New Zealand). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, with slight 

 margins of paler brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the 

 median and greater coverts rather greyer, with dusky streaks, the 

 greater coverts tipped with white, forming a wing-bar; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts blackish, the latter tipped with white ; 

 quills li°bt brown on the inner web, blackish on the outer web 

 and at the end of the inner web ; the shaft of the primaries white 

 before the ends, extending a little on each side of the shaft, and 

 occupying the base of the outer web, forming a wing-patch ; 

 secondaries blackish brown, edged with white at the ends, and with 

 white bases, the white increasing in extent and the brown on the 

 outer web decreasing, until on the inner secondaries the latter colour 

 disappears, and these quills are entirely white ; the long innermost 



