112 MATHEWS— Birds of North and North-West Australia, 



56. Lobibyx miles personata. Lesser marked Plover. 



Lobivanellus personatus (Gould). Birds Austr., Vol. VI., 

 pd. 10, 1842. Coburg Peninsula. 



No. 131— Female. Length, 13.4 inches (15/6/86). 



Irides, wattles, and bill, lemon yellow; tip of the bill, 

 brown; tibia, fleshy red; legs and feet, reddish flesh colour, 

 with the scales reddish brown; spurs on the wing, yellow. 



They arrived near Derby on the 14th June, and were 

 found about the lagoon. 



No. 136— Male (immature). Length, 13.2 inches (16/6/86). 



No. 138— Male. Length, 13.5 inches (16/6/86). 



No. 217— Female. Length, 12.2 inches (2/7/86). 



No. 226— Female. Length, 13.6 inches (28/8/86). 



No. 300— Female. Length, 13.3 inches (21/7/86). 



60. Elseya melanops russata. Western Black-fronted Dot- 



terel. 



Charadruis russatus (Gerdon). Madras Journ. Lit. Soc, 

 Vol. XII., p. 213,^1840. India. 



No. 196— Female. Length, 6.7 inches (27/6/86). 

 Irides, brown; eyelids, coral red; bill, orange at the base, 

 black at the tips; legs and feet, fleshy yellow. 

 No. 230. Length, 6.4 inches (7/7/86). 



No. 317— Female. Length, 6.6 inches (14/0/86). 



Irides, dark brown; eyelids, fleshy, and of a vermillion 

 colour; bill, reddish flesh at the basal two-thirds, remainder 

 black; legs and feet, flesh colour. 



No. 414 — Male. Length, 5 inches. 



Eggs found 19/10/86, in a slight hollow in the sand on a 

 spot running out into the river. 



No. 431— Male. Length, 6.3 inches (24/10/86). 

 No. 440. Length, 6.1 inches. 



Eyelids, brownish olive; bill, olive at base, passing into 

 dark brown at the tip; legs and feet, flesh colour. 



No. 441. Length, 6.1 inches. Same as above. 



61. Himantopfs leucocepiialus assimilis. Northern White- 



headed Stilt. 



Hypsibates leucocepiialus assimilis (Mathews). Nov. Zool., 

 Vol. XVIII., p. 219, 1913. Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 



