210 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Family CHARADRIAD^. 



I should suppose that there is no country on the entire 

 face of the globe, except, perhaps, the antarctic land, that is 

 not inhabited by some species of this family. From Arctic 

 America, through the course of the Andes, to Cape Horn 

 species occur; while from Siberia, through India and its 

 islands, to the southern portions of Tasmania they are also 

 found, and also in Polynesia and New Zealand. Australia is 

 tolerably furnished with members of this group, since she has 

 many genera and species, ranging from the great (Edicnemi 

 to the little Hiaticulce inclusive. 



Genus CEDICNEMUS, TemmincJc. 



Species of this form are very generally dispersed over 

 Africa, India, and Europe ; in Australia there are one or two, 

 and, I believe, the same number is found in South America. 



These birds are allied on the one hand to the Bustards, 

 and on the other to the Plovers ; a more complete union of 

 the characters of both could not, indeed, be found ; but, 

 perhaps, they are most nearly allied to the latter. 



Sp. 496. (EDICNEMUS GRALLARIUS. 



Southern Stone-Plover. 



Charadrius grallarius, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. Ixvi. * 



frenatus, Lath. lb., p. Ixvii. 



High-legged Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 319. 



(Edicnemus longipes, Geoff, in Mus. Paris. 



Bridled Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., torn. ii. p. 320. 



CEidiciiemus grallarius, List of Birds in Brit. Mus. Coll., part iii. p. ,59. 



Charadrius longipes, Wagl. Syst. Avium, Charadrius, sp. 4. 



Burhinus grallarius, Bonap. Compt. Bend, de I'Acad. Sci., torn, xliii. 



Wee-lo, Aborigines of Western AustraHa. 



(Edicnemus grallarius, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vi. pi. 5. 



This is the largest species of its genus yet discovered, its 



