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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 recede 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| inches ; bill I J ; wing 6| ; tail 2|- ; tarsi 2. 



Hah. Northern Australia. 



Remark. — This species exhibits characters pertaining both to the 

 true Plovers and to the Coursers, and would seem therefore to have 

 just claims to be made the type of a new genus ; but before separating 

 it, it will be necessary to know something of its habits, and also if it 

 undergoes any periodical change of plumage. 



TOTANUS GRISEOPYGIUS. 



Head, all the upper surface, rump and tail, greyish brown ; pri- 

 maries dark brown ; line over the eye and all the under surface white ; 

 the neck, breast and flanks strongly freckled with brown ; irides 

 reddish brown ; bill blackish brown, except the base of the under 

 mandible, which is scarlet ; legs and feet hyacinth-red. 



In winter the upper surface is of a much lighter hue, and the under 

 surface is of a greyish white and destitute of the brown freckles. 



Total length 8f inches ; bill 1 J ; wing 6| ; tail 2J ; tarsi \\. 



Hah. Port Essington. 



Remark. — Distinguished by the uniform grey colouring of the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts. 



SCHOENICLUS MAGNUS. 



Crown of the head, and the neck, brownish grey, each feather with 

 a stripe of brown down the centre ; back and wings brown, broadly 

 margined with brownish grey ; primaries blackish brown ; rump 

 white, each feather tipped with brown ; tail brownish grey ; feathers 

 of the breast dark brown, with a crescent of white at the extremity ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; flanks mottled with brown ; 

 bill, feet, and irides, olive. 



Total length ^9i inches; bill If; wing 7 ; tail 2\; tarsi 1§. 



Hah. Australia. 



Remark. — Of this species of Schoeniclus, which is distinguished by 

 its large size, the only examples that have come under my notice are 

 in the British Museum, and a second in the possession of the Hon. 

 Charles Neville, to whom I am indebted for the loan of it for illustra- 

 tion in my ' Birds of Australia.' 



Ardetta macrorhyncha. 



Crown of the head and occipital crest black, with green reflexions ; 

 neck, all the upper surface and wing-coverts greenish olive ; wing- 

 coverts narrowly margined with deep rufous ; primaries and tail 

 slate- grey ; spurious wing, secondaries and all but the three or four 

 external primaries with an irregular triangular-shaped spot at the tip ; 

 down the centre of the throat a series of oblong marks of dark brown 

 and white, forming a conspicuous mottled stripe, continued into the 



