326 



h, i. Ad. sk. 

 k. Ad. st. 

 /. Juv. sk. 



CHARADRIIDJJ. 



Victoria. S. and W. Coast 



(J. T. Cockerel!). 

 New South Wales. 



West Australia. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Australian Museum 



[P.J- 

 Purchased. 



39. RECURVIROSTRA. 



Recurvirostra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 256 (1766) 

 Avocetta, Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 538 (1760) 



Mange. Nearly cosmopolitan. 



Type. 

 R. avocetta. 

 R. avocetta. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Greater wing-coverts and secondaries white ; 



back white, with a broad line of black down 

 the scapulars. 

 a'. Crown black or blackish brown ; sides of 



face and throat white avocetta, p. 326. 



V . Crown cinnamon like the hind-neck, sides 



of face, and throat (ad. sestiv.) ; crown 



pearly grey like the hind-neck (juv. et 



ptil. hiem.) americana, p. 330. 



c'. Crown chestnut like the hind-neck, sides of 



face, and throat nova kollandus, p. 33J 



b. Greater wing-coverts and secondaries blackish 



brown like the mantle, wings, and tail ; head 



white andina, p. 334. 



1 . Recurvirostra avocetta. 



The Avocet. 



The Avosetta of the Italians, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 96, pi. 101 



(1738). 

 L'Avocette, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 538, pi. xlvii. fig. 2 (1760) ; IfAvbent. 



PL Enl. ix. pi. 353; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 466 (1781). 

 Recurvirostra avocetta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 256 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 



Nat. i. p. 693 (1788) ; Bechsi. Orn. Taschenb. pt. 2, p. 329, pi. 29 



(1803) ; Pallas, Zooyr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 160 (1811 : S. Dauria) ; 



Temrn. Man. d'Orn. p. 380 (1815); Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 



iii. p. 102 (1816) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. ii. p. 590 (1820) ; 



Bon.v, Orn. Prov. pi. 338 (1825) ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 3 



(1827) ; Brehm, Toy. Deutschl. p. 685 (1831); Less. Traite d'Orn. 



p. 591 (1831 ) ; Naum. Fog. Deutschl. viii. p. 213, Taf. 204 (1836) ; 



Strickl. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 101 (Smyrna) ; Gould, B. Eur. iv. pi. 308 



(1837) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. .V N. Amer. p. 54 ( I.S'.SI ; Mac/ill. 



Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 87 (1840) ; Orespon, Orn. Gard, p. 398 (1840) ; 



Keys. 8f Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 209 (1840) ; Nordm. in Demid. Toy. 



Ritss. Merid. iii. p. 248 (1840) ; Selys-Lonqch. Faun. Bely. p. 123 



(1842) ; Schl. Rev. Crit. p. xevi (1844) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. 



Mus. p. 97 (1844); Miihle, Beitr. Orn. Griechenl. p. 98 (1844); 



Hodgs, Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Grail, pis. 90, 100, no. 573 ; id. 



in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844); Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 126 



(1845: Lower Egypt in winter); dray, Cat. Mamm. fyc. Nepal 



