306 CHARADRIID.E. 



Adult (type of species). Similar to T. novce zealandice, but differ- 

 ing in its much darker colour, which is uniform brown, and by 

 having the sides of the body extensively mottled with brown bases 

 to the feathers. Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 1, wing 4-8, 

 tail 2-4, tarsus 0-95. 



Hob. Auckland Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Auckland Islands. The Admiralty [P.]. (Type of 



species.) 



35. ANARHYNCHUS. 



Type. 

 Anarhynchus, Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de V Astrolabe, 



Zool. i. p. 252 (1830) A. frontalis. 



Banqe. Confined to Xew Zealand. 



1. Anarhynchus frontalis. 



Anarhynchus frontalis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de VAstrol., Zool. i. p. 252, 

 pi. 31. figs. 2-5 (1830: Chourika Bay, N.Z.); Less. Compl. Buff. 

 ix. p. 427 (1837) ; Gray in Dieffenb. Trav. A. Zeal. ii. A pp. p 196 

 (1843); id. Voy. Ereb. §• Terr., Birds, -p. 12 (1846); Bp. C. R. 

 xliii. p. 597 (1856) ; llarting, Ibis, 1869, p. 304, pi. viii. ; Button, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 394 (Auckland) ; Newton, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 673, 

 674 (N. Z.) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 169 ; Buller, B. New Zeal. 

 p. 216 (1873) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1874, p. 194 (X. Z.) ; Button, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 40 ; Barvie-Brotcn, t. c. p. 97 (Otai River-bed, Canter- 

 burv Settlement, breeding, Oct.) ; Buller, t. c. p. 118 ; Barting, 

 P. Z. S. 1874, p. 549, pi. Ix. fig. 11 (egg) ; Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. $ 

 Terr., Birds, App. p. 29 (1875) ; Barvie-Brotcn, Ibis, 1875, p. 519 ; 

 Buller, B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 9, pl. xxvi. fig. 2 (1888). 



Thinornis frontalis, Graxj, Gen. B. iii. p. 545 (1847) ; id. Band-l. B. 

 hi. p. 17, no. 10024 (1871). 



Anarhynchus albifrons, Reiehenb. Grail, tab. civ. fig. 658 (1848) ; 

 Sehl. Bandl. Dierk. i. p. 435 (1857). 



Charadrius frontalis, Ellinan, Zool. 1861, p. 7469 ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 234; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 152 (1888). 



Hasmatopus frontalis, Finsch, J.f. O. 1867, p. 346. 



Adult male. General colour above pale slaty grey ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the greater series slightly fringed with whitish ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries blackish, the latter 

 greyer on the inner webs, blackish at the tip and on the outer web, 

 shafts white for the greater part, and the inner primaries white 

 near the base on the inner webs ; secondaries ashy brown, paler 

 externally and fringed with white at the ends ; the long inner 

 secondaries entirely grey ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 slightly darker than the back, the tail-coverts with black shaft- 

 streaks ; centre tail-feathers dusky blackish with grey edges, the 

 outer feathers gradually paler grey and whitish at the tips, the 

 outermost feathers white with a little grey before the ends ; head 

 like the back ; a broad white forehead extending above the eye and 

 separated from the crown by an indistinct line of blackish ; lores 



