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CHARADRIIDiE. 



Ereb. Sf Terr., Birds, p. 13 (1844); id. List Grail. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 98 (1844); id. Gen. B. iii. p. 577 (1847); Reichenb. Grail. 

 tab. xcvii. fig. 1046 (1850) ; Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 421 (1856) ; Gray, 

 Ibis, 1862, p. 237 ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bos, Scolopaces, p. 108 (1864); 

 Mutton, Ibis, 1870, p. 394 (Auckland) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 

 p. 48, no. 10296 (1871); Butter, B. New Zeal. p. 205 (1873); 

 Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1874, p. 96 (Otaio) ; Sorting, P. Z. 8. 1874, 

 p. 459, pi. lx. fig. 10 ; Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. # Terr., Birds, p. 30 

 (1875); Seebohm, Ibis, 1866, p. 234; Butter, B. New Zeal. 2nd 

 ed. ii. p. 24, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 (1888) ; M'Lean, Ibis, 1892, p. 252 

 (N.Z.) ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 30. 

 Ilimantopus iriger, Elhnan, Zool. 1861, p. 7470. 



Adult male. Entirely black above and below, the wings and tail 

 glossed with green ; the under surface of the body duller and more 

 sooty black than the upper surface : " bill black ; legs and feet 

 pinky red, the claws black ; iris and eyelids crimson " ( W. L. 

 Buller). Total length 12 inches, culmen 2-6, wing 9'8, tail 3-1, 

 tarsus 3 - 55. 



Young. Black, more or less blotched with white, with a good 

 deal of white on the base of the tail, and the throat and breast white. 

 I believe, however, that the back and rump always remain black in 

 the young bird. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



38. CLADORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 

 Leptorhynchus, Z)u Bus, Bull. B. Acad. Bru.v. ii. 



p. 419 (1835) C. leucocephalus. 



Cladorhynchus, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 69 . . C. leucocephalus. 

 Xiphidiorhynchus, Reichenb. Vbg. Neuholl. ii. 



Abth. i. p. 28 (1845) C. leucocephalus. 



liange. Confined to Australia. 



1. Cladorhynchus leucocephalus. 



Pecurvirostra leucocephala, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 103 



(1816) ; id. Gal. Ois. ii. pi. eclxxi. (1834). 

 Recurvirostra orientalis, Cur. Eigne An. i. p. 496 (1817) Temm. 



