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46. H^MATOPUS OPTHALMICUS. 

 (Ramsay's Oyster Catcher). 



Hamatopus opthahiiicus, Castl. and Ramsay, P.Z.S., N. S. Wales, 

 i., p. 384-5, (1876) ; Ramsay, List of Austr. B., p. 19, (1888). 



This new species, which is one of Dr. Ramsay's numerous 

 additions to the avifauna of Australia, was procured on the 

 shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where only it is recorded 

 from in the " List of Australian Birds." It will probably be 

 found elsewhere on the northern shores of the continent, 

 and perhaps on the contiguous islands of Torres Straits, as 

 well as in New Guinea. 



To conclude this notice of the Limicolce of Australia, it 

 will be right to divide them into groups, based on the foregoing 

 outhne of their distribution, showing : — 



1st. Resident or Non-migrant Species. 

 2nd. Partial or Internal Migrants. 

 3rd. Migrants: — 



(a.) From Eastern Asia. 



(6.) From Asia and Europe. 



(c.) In both Palsearctic and Nearctic Regions. 



1 . Resident or Non-migrants : — 



Himantopus novae zealandise.* 

 ^gialitis masters!. 

 yEgialitis monacha. 

 ^Egialitis ruficapilla.^ 

 Lobivanellus lobatus. 

 Lobivanellus miles. 

 Sarciophorus pectoralis. 

 CEdicnemus grallarius. 

 Haematopus unicolor.' 

 Haeraatopus ophthalmicus. 



2. Internal Migrants or Visitants, more or less, to the 

 southern portions of the Continent : — 



Rhynchaea australis. 

 Recurvirostra rubricollis.* 

 Himantopus pectoralis. 

 Eudromias austrahs. 

 ^gialitis bicincta.* 



'Exists beyond strictly Australian limits : in New Zealand. 

 '' Exists beyond strictly Australian limits: in New Zealand and New 

 Guinea. 



