230 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



the British Museum with thick bills and rather shorter tarsi ; 

 these are doubtless distinct. Mr. Wallace brought skins of 

 my C. veredus from Macassar, and there is a specimen in the 

 British Museum from Japan, which favours the opinion that 

 these young birds, like the young of other species of this family, 

 wander far away from their true home. 



A specimen of this species was procured at Port Essington 

 by Gilbert, and a second has been sent to me from Sydney 

 by Strange. Judging from its structure and the character of 

 its plumage, it would seem to be nearly allied to the restricted 

 genus Eudromias. 



Crown of the head and all the upper surface brown, each 

 feather narrowly fringed with buff ; primaries blackish brown, 

 the shaft of the first white ; tail brown, narrowly edged with 

 white, the brown colour gradually fading as the feathers re- 

 cede from the centre ; face, 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 8 J inches ; bill \\ ; wing 6^ ; tail 2^ ; tarsi 2. 



Genus ^GIALITES, Bole. 



The little Bing-Dottrels, composing the genus jEgialites, 

 inhabit both the Old and the New World. Two species at 

 least are found in Europe and Asia, and three in Australia. 

 They are rather dumpy little birds, with large heads, generally 

 banded with black, and have a gorget of the same hue on the 

 chest ; their bills are short and pulpy, and are generally 

 yellow at the base, while their legs are fleshy and mostly 

 of this colour. The sexes are alike in their markings, and the 

 young attain their full plumage in the second year. 



