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Adult male—Back, wing-coverts, scapulars, and long innermost secondaries 
ashy-grey ; outer edge of wing white ; bastard-wing brown ; small coverts near the 
edge of the wing and primary-coverts brown tipped with white, the four outer 
primary-quills dark brown, the remainder white tipped with brown ; secondaries 
similar in colour, some of the inner ones entirely white ; head and throat black as 
also a collar on the upper mantle which joins the black of the throat on the sides 
of the neck ; a black patch on the sides of the breast, the feathers of which have 
white tips; a collar on the hind-neck and the entire under-surface pure white, 
including the axillaries ; bill yellowish-red, tip black ; iris hazel, eyelids scarlet ; 
tarsi and feet flesh-pink. Total length 215 mm.; culmen 17, wing 145, tail 66, 
tarsus 27. 
Adult female—Similar to the adult male but smaller. 
Melanistic form (C. c. torbayi)—Head and throat black ; a white collar on the 
nape ; entire back and upper tail-coverts black like some of the wing-coverts ; 
primaries black, with a large white patch on the inner web ; rest of under-surface 
white, including the under wing- and tail-coverts. 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 133, wrote: ‘‘ Female—Resembles the male 
save that the head is mottled with white,” following Gould, but we find the male 
and female to be alike in coloration. 
Immature—Differs from the adult in the entire absence of black on the head 
and throat, the former being greyish-brown while the latter, as also the fore-head, 
is white ; the black of the upper-surface, in the adult, is here indicated by dark 
brown feathers ; the dark patch on the sides of the breast, much the same as in the 
adult ; secondaries white with broad subterminal band of brown ; throat pure 
white ; brown patch on the side of the breast ; bill dark brown, yellowish at the 
base ; legs and feet paler yellow than in the adult. 
Nestling.—Upper-surface pale buff, vermiculated with dark brown ; tail black ; 
fore-head more sparsely marked than the back ; a black nuchal band ; cheeks, chin, 
throat, and entire under-surface white, including the under tail-coverts and the 
under wing-coverts ; a spot of black on each side of the lower throat. 
Nest.—A depression in the ground. 
Eggs.—Clutch, two or three ; ground-colour pale stone, marked all over, but 
more at the larger end, with purplish-black and lavender spots ; axis 39 to 39.5 mm., 
diameter 26.5 to 27. 
Breeding-season.—September to January. 
Distribution and forms——Confined to Southern Australia, outside the tropics, 
and two subspecies admitted : the eastern C. c. cucullatus (Vieillot) and the western 
C. c. tregellasi (Mathews) a larger and darker form, with apparently a tendency to 
melanism as evidenced strongly in the aberration above named C. c. torbayi Mathews. 
Genus EUPODELLA. 
Eupodella Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. III., pt. 1, p. 83, April 2nd, 1913. New name for 
Eupoda Brandt 1845; not Hupodes Koch 1835. Type (by monotypy): Charadrius asiaticus 
Pallas. 
Eupoda Brandt, in Tchihatcheff's Voy. Sci. Atlai Orient., pt. m., p. 444, May 3rd, 1845. Type 
(by monotypy): C. astaticus Pallas. 
Not Eupodes Koch, Deutschl. Crust., Vol. I., tab. 8, 1835. 
Medium-sized Plovers with long slender bills, long wings, long legs, and 
small feet. 
The culmen is long and slender, the dertrum little swollen, much longer than the 
middle toe. Wing long and pointed, first primary longest. Tail short and slightly 
rounded. The metatarsus is very long, more than twice as long as the middle toe 
and about twice as long as the culmen. 
