154 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Suborder CEDICNEMI. . 

 Family (EDICNEMID-ffi. 



Bill large and strong, nostrils pervious, their opening a long slit ; wings 

 when folded falling short of the tip of tail; secondaries longer than 

 primaries; tarsus covered with hexagonal scales; tarsus longer than cul- 

 men or than middle toe with claw. 



Genus ORTHORHAMPHUS Salvadori, 1874. 



Characters same as those given for the Family. 



129. ORTHORHAMPHUS MAGNIROSTRIS (Vieillot). 

 AUSTRALIAN STONE PLOVER. 



(Edicnemus magnirostris VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. (1818), 23, 



231. 

 Orthorhamphus magnirostris SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 22; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 173; OATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 84; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 30. 



Ta-ba-la-lan, Calayan. 



Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin X (McGregor) ; Fuga (McGregor) ; Luzon 

 (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Mearns) ; Mindoro (Platent ) ; Palawan ( Whitehead, 

 White). Australia to Bismarck Archipelago and north to Borneo and islands of 

 Bay of Bengal. 



"Adult. Above ashy brown, with dusky shaft-lines; scapulars like 

 back; upper tail-coverts ashy like back, but freckled and barred with 

 dusky brown; lesser wing-coverts dark brown, lower ones blackish at the 

 ends and forming a broad band across wing, followed by another band 

 of white, formed by median coverts, which are gray at the tips, with a 

 broad white band across the middle followed by another bar of dusky 

 blackish; greater coverts entirely gray, fading off into whitish at the 

 ends ; alula and primary-coverts white like the quills they cover ; primaries 

 brownish black with white along inner web, extending across outer web of 

 the first two ; inner primaries pure white ; secondaries dark brown, exter- 

 nally gray, with white bases and small white tips, also white along the 

 inner webs ; on the inner secondaries the white confined to inner web, long 

 innermost secondaries ashy brown like back ; tail ashy brown, with a black 

 band at the end, before this a broad white band, preceded by a narrow black 

 band ; two middle feathers light ashy brown freckled with dusky mottlings, 

 the other feathers also slightly freckled with dusky ; crown and neck like 

 the back ; lores blackish, as also a broad band along the sides of crown, ex- 

 tending to the sides of the neck, where it joins the black ear-coverts and 

 incloses the white of face, which consists of a white band above and 



