Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 733 



-^314. ESACUS MAGNIROSTRIS (Yieill.). 

 Big-billed Stone-Plover. 



a. Oedicnemus magnirostris [Geoffr. MS.?] ; (I) Vieill., K D. XXTTT , 1818, 231, pi. G- 39, 

 f. 1; (II) Temm., PI. Col. 387 (1826); (3) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Cm-sores, 1865, 22; 

 (4) Seeb., Distr. Charadr. 1887, 89; (5) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 203. 



h. Burhinus magnirostris (1) Less., Tr. d'Orn. 1831, 547, pai-tim. 



Esacus magnirostris (1) Gray, List Gen. & Subgen. B. 1841, 83; (11) Gould, B. Austral. 

 1848, VI, pi. 6, (3) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 346; (4) Gld., Hb. B. Austr. 1865, 

 n, 213; (5) Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 181; (6) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 91; 



(7) Hume, Str. F. 1874, 11, 116, 290; (8) id., ib. 1875, in, 224; (9) id., ib. 1877, 

 V, 121; (10) id., ib. 1878, VI, 458; (Uj Rosenb., Malay. Ai-cbip. 1878, 277; 

 (12) Legge, B. Ceylon 18S0, 974; (13) E. L. & L. C. Lay., Ibis 1882, 532; (14: 

 W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1884, 229; (15) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 203; (16) Rams., Tab. List 

 1888, 19; (17) Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs 1890, HI, 334; /'iS; Wiglesw., 

 Av.Polyn. 1892, 63; (19) Walker, Ibis 1892, 257; (20) Tristr. t. c. 299; (21) Grant, 

 Ibis 1896, 127; (22) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 180, 250. 



c. Aesacus magnirostris (1) Sundev., Tentamen 1872, 128; (2) Rams., Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 



1882, Vn, 40; (3) Sharpe, Report Voy. Alert 1884, 26; (4) Tristr., Cat. Coll. 

 B. 1889, 24; (5) Newton, Diet. B. 1893, 130. 



d. Orthorhamphus magnirostris (1) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 312; (2) id., Om. Pap. 



1882, m, 290; (3) Vorderm. , N. T. Ned. Ind. XLIV, 1885, 204; (4) Everett, 

 Ibis 1886, 525; (5) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. LXIX, 1890, 415; (6) Heine & 

 Rchw., Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 333; (7) Salvadori, Oru. Pap. Agg. 1891, 198; 



(8) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896. XXIV, 22, 722. 

 "Wili-wili" (after the cry of the bird), Celebes, Rosenberg 11. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori d 2, d 7; Sharpe d 8. 



Figures and descriptions. Gould II 4; Vieillot a I; Temminck all; Seebohm a 4 

 (woodcuty; Hume 7; Salvad. d 2; Sharpe d 8. 



Adult. Above drab-brown, with dark shaft-streaks, most pronounced on the head; lesser 

 wing-coverts darker brown; the other wing-coverts and inner remiges drab- 

 grey, separated fi-om the lesser coverts by a white bar; primaries bro^^^l, the outer- 

 most one white about the middle and on most of the inner web, the next two with 

 a large space of white on tlie inner web only, the two following ones without white 

 except towards base of inner web, the next foui- wliite, marked with brown on the 

 fii'st and two inner ones; secondaries white, drab-grey on exposed part of the outer 

 webs, intensifying into a subtenniual bar of dark brown; middle tail-feathers 

 drab-bro-n-n marked with wliite and dusky at tip, the others crossed with a bar of 

 white and tipped with black; face with a long supercihary and a subocular stripe 

 black, the latter covering the anterior ear-coverts and meeting the former and passing 

 down the sides of neck: hinder ear-coverts and a broad ring round eye not quite 

 meeting in front wliite (forming wliite spectacles); short malar stripe black; chin, 

 throat and rictal region white; under-parts white, becoming drab-grey on breast 

 and jugulum. with dark shaft-streaks on the latter; entire ^vmg below, where it rests 

 upon the body, white; "irides pale yellow; eyelids primi-ose-yellow; base of the bill 

 sulphur-yeUow, which colour is continued along the sides of the upper mandible above 

 the nostrils; tibiae lemon-yellow; tarsi and feet wine-yellow; the upper ridge of the 

 scales of the toes lead-colour" (Gould 4r, wing 285 mm; tail 115; tarsus 90; 

 middle toe 54; bill from forehead 72 (Gorontalo: Riedel — C 878). 



