190 ON THE BIKDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



142. ^Egialites peroxii (Temm.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Iks, Cttrsores, p. 33, "I'Arcliipel 

 Indien " (March 1865) ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 139. (PI. X. fig. 2, in orig.) 



llnh. Borneo, Java, Semao {Schlcriel); Macassar {Wallace). 



An example of this species in summer plumage was obtained by Mr. ^^"allace in Celebes. 

 Mr. Swinhoe, who has also examined this individual, agrees with me in identifying it as above. 

 It belongs to the subsection of which jiE. cautianus may be regarded as the type. As it is a rare 

 species, I append the following description : — 



Forehead, from the base of the bill, pure white ; a broad white superciliary stripe, confluent 

 with the white forehead, terminates above the black ear-coverts ; narrow frontal band, lores, ear- 

 coverts, and a broad band crossing the back and reaching to the sides black ; a black pectoral 

 stripe, continued from the black sides, is narrowed into a thin line on the breast, where it does 

 not quite meet ; this excepted, the entire under surface, cheeks, under wing-coverts, and a broad 

 nuchal collar pure white. Upper plumage pale earthy brown, most of the feathers with albescent 

 edgings, conspicuous on the wing-coverts, some of which are edged with a purer white; primaries 

 reddish brown ; secondaries paler brown, broadly margined on the inner webs, and tipped with 

 white, more or less cinereous ; all the shafts white ; three outer pairs of rectrices pure white ; 

 the next pair pale brown, much mixed with white (the rest of the rectrices are absent in this 

 example) ; bill jet-black, no trace of any other colour ; legs, in dried skin, pale yellow-brown. 

 ^^'ing O.J, bill from forehead f, tarsus 1, tail If. 



The frontal white patch is broad, more so than in European examples of ^-E. hiaticula. In 

 proportion the black frontal band is narrow, and is not posteriorly edged with white. 



Tr. Z. S.riii. StBEPSILAS, lUiger. 



^' ' 143. Strepsilas interpres (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i, p. 248 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Cur sores, p. 43. 



Hah. Celebes {Mus. Lugd.) : almost universal. 



EsACUs, Lesson. 



144. EsACUS suGXiuoSTRis (Geofi'roy St.-Hilaire), Vieill. N. Diet, xxiii. p. 231 (1818), nee 

 Latham. 



(Edlcnemus magnirostris, GeofFroy, Temm. PI. Col. 387, " Celebes ; " Wagler, Syst. Av. 

 CJiaradrius, no. 3, " New Holland " (1827) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 22. 



Charadrius giganteus, Lichtenst. ; Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 647, " New Holland." 



Esacus magtiirostris, Geoffroy, Gould, Hand-b. B. Austr. ii. p. 213. 



(Latham), Wall. P.Z. S. 1862, p. 346, nee Latham. 



Ilah. Celebes {liciinv(trdt) ; Island of Raou, near Morty, Island of Moor, east coast of 

 Gilolo, Waigiou, Bungka {Mus. Lugd.) ; northern and north-western parts of Australia {Gould) ; 

 Sula Islands, New Guinea ( Wallace). 



The Australian "Great-billed Plover" of Latham (Syn. Supp. ii. p. 319, C. magnirostris. 

 Lath. Ind. Om. Supp. p. 66) has been shown by Mr. Strickland (Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 337) to 

 be nothing but QHdicncmus grallarius (Lath.). Consequently Illiger's genus L'urhinus (Prodrora. 



