36. PEW0HYA8. 3Q- 



dusky grey, as also the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; cheeks, throat 

 and under surface pure white, with a black band across the fore' 

 neck; axillaris and under wing-coverts white; the lower greater 

 coverts ashy like the quill-lining : " bill black ; legs and feet blackish 

 green tinged with grey ; iris black " ( W. L. Buller). Total len-th 

 / inches, culmen H, wing 4-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 7-5 inches 

 culmen 1-1, wing 4-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-95. 



Hah. Xew Zealand. 



f ah' £" ? ew ! , Zea i antl Sir Samuel Scott dp.]. 



j a 7 * A f kland. Sir G. Grev rp.l J 



c. d ad. ; d, e,f. Selwyn River, Oct., Feb. Colonial Wuseuui 



yaasjf. Wellington HP.! 



^. Ad. sk. \\ est Coast of South Island. Tweeddale Coll. J 



Subfamily V. PELTOHYATINtE. 



36. PELTOHYAS. 

 Eudromias, pt., auct. recent. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



1. Peltohyas australis. 

 Eudroniias australis, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1840, p. 174 (interior of S. Aus- 

 tralia) ; id. B. Austr. vi. pi. 15 (1843) ■ Gray, List Grail. Brit 

 Mm. p. 68 (1844) ; Start, Exp. Cent,: Austr. ii.App. p. 49 ( 1849 :' 

 S 8 ™ ?x Adelaide); Reickenb. Grail. SuppL tab. cv. figs. 106-5- 

 Z { « ): j; lcht -^ ome " c/ - Av - M " s - Berol. p. 9-5 (1854); Schl. 

 Mus. Paus-Bas, Cursores, p. 47 (1865) ; Gould, Handb. B. iustr 

 ii. p. 22, (1865) j Hurting, Ibis. 1870, p. 202; J2a»igo» p w 

 Lam. Soc.N.S.W.1. p. 187 (1877 :N.S.W.; Queensland; Victoria:' 

 interior; S. Australia); -D^/fet, 0;-«. ^ ws />. pi. 97 (1877) ■ 

 Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.8. W. ii. p. 197 (1878) : id. oa at 

 vn. p. 410 (1883 : Darling & Lachlan Rivers, breeding) ;' Xorili 

 Proc. Lam. Soc. N.8. W. (2) i. p. 1167 (1887); Ram S au,Tab. List 



vfi"**- 1 ?* 188 ^ N - S - W - : Interior ' slAustrala);^? 



-V .7,- .v i. w , 4j*lu 303 (1889) ; Jfc** f Beichen. Xomenct. 



Mus. J/em. p. 330 (1890). 

 Charadrius australis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p 25 (1849)- id 



Hand-l £. iii p 14, no. 9991 (1871) ; Seebohm, Geoyr. Distr. 



( naradr. p. 110 (1888). 

 Morinellus australis, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



Adult. General colour above sandv buff, mottled and streaked 

 with dark brown centres to the feathers ; wing-coverts like the 

 back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown 

 edged with sandy buff at the ends ; all the primaries lighter brown 

 on the inner weba except at the tips, the first primary with a white 

 shatt. the next ones with the shaft pale cinnamon, this colour 



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