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a broad stripe over the eye, and the chin, buffy white ; sides and back 
of the neck, and the breast, buffy brown ; abdomen and under surface 
white ; irides very dark brown; legs and feet brownish flesh-colour ; 
bill dark brown. 
Total length 83 inches; bill 1}; wing 63; tail 21; tarsi 2. 
Hab. Northern Australia. 
Remark.—This species exhibits characters pertaining both to the 
true Plovers and to the Coursers, and would seem therefore to have 
just claims to be made the type of a new genus; but before separating 
it, it will be necessary to know something of its habits, and also if it 
undergoes any periodical change of plumage. 
ToTaNUS GRISEOPYGIUS. 
Head, all the upper surface, rump and tail, greyish brown; pri- 
maries dark brown; line over the eye and all the under surface white ; 
the neck, breast and flanks strongly freckled with brown; irides 
reddish brown; bill blackish brown, except the base of the under 
mandible, which is scarlet; legs and feet hyacinth-red. 
In winter the upper surface is of a much lighter hue, and the under 
surface is of a greyish white and destitute of the brown freckles. 
Total length 83 inches; bill 1$; wing 62; tail 24; tarsi 14. 
Hab. Port Essington. 
Remark.—Distinguished by the uniform grey colouring of the rump 
and upper tail-coverts. 
ScH@NICLUS MAGNUS. 
Crown of the head, and the neck, brownish grey, each feather with 
a stripe of brown down the centre; back and wings brown, broadly 
margined with brownish grey; primaries blackish brown; rump 
white, each feather tipped with brown; tail brownish grey ; feathers 
of the breast dark brown, with a crescent of white at the extremity ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts white; flanks mottled with brown; 
bill, feet, and irides, olive. 
Total length 94 inches ; bill 13; wing 7; tail 21; tarsi 12. 
Hab. Australia. 
Remark.—Of this species of Scheniclus, which is distinguished by 
its large size, the only examples that have come under my notice are 
in the British Museum, and a second in the possession of the Hon. 
Charles Neville, to whom I am indebted for the loan of it for illustra- 
tion in my ‘ Birds of Australia.’ 
ARDETTA MACRORHYNCHA. 
Crown of the head and occipital crest black, with green reflexions ; 
neck, all the upper surface and wing-coverts greenish olive; wing- 
coverts narrowly margined with deep rufous; primaries and tail 
slate-grey ; spurious wing, secondaries and all but the three or four 
external primaries with an irregular triangular-shaped spot at the tip ; 
down the centre of the throat a series of oblong marks of dark brown 
and white, forming a conspicuous mottled stripe, continued into the 
breast, where it is lost in the mingled grey and buffy brown of the 
abdomen ; upper mandible dark reddish brown ; basal portion of the 
