30 BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Fgg.—Yellowish brown, profusely marked with dark brown ; length, 
1°85 ; breadth, 1-25. 
Both Islands, 
80. HIMANTOPUS MELAS, Homb. et Jacq. C.M. 
Black Stilt. 
Heap, neck and lower parts, dull black ; back and wings, greenish 
black ; tail, black ; forehead, cheeks and throat, grey. The young have 
the whole under surface, and over the tail, white ; the inner webs of the 
lateral tail feathers white, with black tips. 
Hee to NV... 9-D.> BL. 2:3 Sh S08. 
Lgg.—Sunilar to that of Nove Zealandic. 
Both Islands. 
Tringa. JL. 
Bit, rather longer than the head, stratght, rather dilated at the tip ; 
toes, margined on the sides by a membrane ; hind toe, small. 
All parts of the world. 
81. TRINGA CANUTUS. L. C.M. 
Knot. 
ABOVE, greyish brown, slightly streaked with brown ; below, white, 
spotted with brown on the breast and throat ; upper tail coverts, white, 
with circular bars of blackish brown ; quills, blackish brown, from the 
fifth margined on the outer web with white ; tail, greyish brown ; shafts 
_ of the quills and tail feathers white (winter plumage). 
Hed oe W., 6°25 5 +B. 1°25 50. Yaa. 
Both Islands, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Europe, N. America. 
GALLINAGO. Leach. 
Bit, long ; first and second quills, equal ; tarsi, shorter than the middle 
toe ; hind toe elevated with a long claw. 
All parts of the world. 
82. *GALLINAGO AUCKLANDICA. Gray. 
ABoVE, fulvous, marked with black ; below, fulvous white, with brown 
markings on the breast ; a brown stripe from the nostrils under the eye 
to the back of the head, and another, in an oblique direction, on each 
cheek. 
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