37. HIMANTOPUS. 317 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having a brown back. 

 Total length 14 inches, culmen 2-4, wing 8-9, tail 3, tarsus 4 - 25. 



Young. Similar to the adult female, and having a brown back, 

 with ashy-whitish margins to the feathers of the back and whitish 

 edges to the inner primaries, which are brown on the inner 

 webs. The crown of the head is ashy grey, the forehead and sides 

 of the face white* and the collar on the hind-neck is light ashy 

 grey. 



Hah. Brazil and Chili. 



a, b. S ad. ; c, d. Central Chili (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 

 $ ad. sk. 



e. Juv. sk. Chili. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. c? ad. sk. Chili (E. C. Reed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 <j. 2 ad. sk. Santiago, Chili (Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Valparaiso. Sir W. Burnett and 



Admiral Fitzrov 

 [P.]. 



!. Ad. sk. Maldonado. Sir W. Burnett and 



Admiral Fitzrov 

 [P.]. 



k. £ ad. sk. Buenos Avres, Mav. H. Durnford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



/. cJad.sk. Buenos Ayres( W. II. Hud- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



son). 



m. Jimm.sk. Caicara, Brazil (Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Himantopus leucocephalus. 



Himantopus leucocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 26; 8. MM. 

 Verh. Land- en J'olkenk. p. 153 (1839-44: New Guinea; Java; 

 Sumatra) ; Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 24 (1841) ; Gray, List Grail. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 98 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 577 (1847) ; Reiehenb. 

 Grail, tab. xcvii. figs. 642-43 (1848) ; Sturt, Exp. Centr. Austr. 

 ii. App. p. 49 (1849) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 93 

 (1854: Australia); Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 421 (1856); Scl. Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. p. 169 (1858) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 197 ; id. Cat. 

 Mamm. # B. New Gain. pp. 52, 62 (1859) ; Wallace, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 350 (Timor); Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 438 (Mysol) : Wallace, 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 4*7 (Timor) ; Rosetib. Nat. Tijdsc'hr. Nederl. Ind. 

 xxv. p. 255 (1863); id. J.f. O. 1864, p. 137 ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Scolopaces, p. lot; (1864); Gould, Ilandb. B. Austr. ii. p. 246 

 (1865); Blyih, Ibis, 1865, p. 35; Fi?isch, Neu-Guinea, p. 181 

 (1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 334 (Port Denison) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1867, p. 600 (Grafton, Clarence R., breeding) ; Gray, lland-l. B. 

 iii. p. 48, no. 10295(1871); Wa/d. Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 91 

 (1872: Celebes); Ramsay, Ibis, 1874, p. 259 (Perth; Rottnest 

 1.4.) ; Sorting, P. Z. S. 187), p. 459; Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 321 

 (1874); Wold. Trans. Zool Soc. ix. pp. 228, 251 (1875: Philip- 

 pines) ; Rosenb. Reistocht. Geelvinkb. p. 9 (1875); Cab. \ Reichen. 

 J. f. O. 1876, p. 827 (Amboina) ; Ramsay, P. Z.S. 1877. p. 337 

 (eggs); id. Proc. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. i. p. 384 (1877: Norman K., 

 Gulf of Carpentaria), ii. p. 198 (1878), iii. p. 115 (1879: Hall 

 Sound, New Guinea) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 141 (Tondano; Lim- 

 botto) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 27s (1878-79: Celebes), p. 324 

 (Ceram), p. 407 (Ternate), p. 563 (New Guinea); Salvad. Ann. 



