39. RECTJRVIROSTKA. 



333 



Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman and 



Tweeddale Colls. 



3. Recurvirostra novae hollandiae. 



Recurvirostra novas bollandia3, Vieill. N. Diet, a" Hist. Nat. p. 103 

 (1816) ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 237 (New Zealand) ; Buller, B. New 

 Zeal. p. 201 (1873); Harting, Ibis, 1874, p. 258; Buller, B. New 

 Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 20, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 (1888). 



Recuxviroetra rubricollis, Temm. Man. d"Orn. ii. p. 592 (1820) ; 

 Gould, B. Australia, vi. pi. 27 (1842) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 97 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 570 (1847) ; Reichenb. Vbg. 

 Neuholl. p. 20 (1850) ; id. Grail, tab. lxii. figs. 989 990 (1851) : 

 Up. C. R. xliii. p. 421 (1856) ; Schl. Mus. Pags-Bas, Scolopaces^ 

 p. 104 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. '249 (1865) ; Gray, 

 Iland-l. B. iii. p. 47, no. 10287 (1871) ; Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Sot: 

 N. S. W. i. p. 217 (1877 : N. S. W.) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 337 

 (eggs) ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. p. 198 (1878), vii. p. 411 

 (1883 : Lacblan distr., breeding, Sept. -Dec.) ; id. op. cit. (2) i. 

 p. 1099 (1887: Derby, N.W. Australia); North, t. c. p. 117.; ; 

 Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 (1888: Australia generally 

 except Cape York) ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 171 

 (1888) ; North, Nests # Eggs Austr. B. p. 309 (1889). 



Avocetta novas bollandiae, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7470 (New 

 Zealand). 



llimantopus novaa bollandiae, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 75 

 (1885). 



llimantopus rubricollis, Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 229 ; id. Geogr. Distr. 

 Charadr. p. 292 (1888). 



Adult. General colour above white, with a longitudinal line of 

 black down the sides of the back, formed by the scapulars ; outer 

 scapulars white, forming a broad band which skirts the black sca- 

 pulars ; small wing-coverts on the edge of the wing white, the 

 remainder of the lesser wing-coverts black, the greater series white, 

 with more or less black on the outer webs ; bastard-wing pure 

 white : primary-coverts blackish, white at the base, the inner ones 

 entirely white; quills blackish, primaries white at the base and 

 along t ho inner web, the inner primaries and secondaries pure 

 white, the innermost secondaries black; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 ashy grey, the outer feathers white, shaded with ashy externally ; 

 brad all round bright chestnut, extending round half the neck 

 and occupying the whole of the throat; remainder of the under 

 surface, from the fore-neck downwards, pure white, including 



