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88 Hooded Dottrel, M. cucullata, A., T. Stat. c. shore 8.3 



Head, throat, upper-back black; hind-neck, under white; 

 lower-back light brownish-gray; middle tail feathers 

 black, rest tipped white; scarlet ring round eye; f., 

 crown mottled black, white. Sand-hoppers, worms. 

 1 89 Australian Dottrel, Peltohyas australis, A. =vt. Eur. 

 1 Common Dottrel. Mig. v.r. plains (interior) 8 



Upper sandy-buff mottled with dark-brown; black band 

 across top of head from eye to eye; black collar on 

 hind-neck continued as a narrow V across chest; fore- 

 head, throat white; m., duller. Insects. 

 1 90 White-headed Stilt (Pied), Longshanks, Stilt -bird, 

 7 Long-legged Plover, Himantopus leucocephalus, Great 



Sunda Is., Mol., N.G., A. =vt. Eur. Stilt. 



Nom. r. swamps, lakes 15 

 White; hind-neck, back, wings black; long legs pink; f., 

 smaller. Insects, pond-snails. 

 1 91 Banded Stilt, Rottnest Snipe (e), Gladorhynchus 

 1 leucocephalus, A. Nom. v.r. shallow lakes 13.5 



White; broad chestnut band on breast; wings, centre of 

 abdomen black; long bill black. Plaintive whistle. 



1 92 Red-necked Avocet, Cobbler, Cobbler's Awl, Painted 

 4 Lady, Scooper, Recurvirostra novae-hollandiae, A., T., 



N.Z. =vt. cos. bird. Nom. r. lakes, tidal bays 15.5 



White; head, neck chestnut; wings black; f., sim. Shell- 

 fish, insects. 



2 93 Australian Curlew, Sea-Curlew, Numenius cyanopus, 

 9 E. Sib., Japan to A. =vt. Eur. Common Curlew. 



Mig. c. tidal shores m., 21; f., 24 

 Arched bill 7in. ; mottled brown; f., larger. Crabs, worms. 



