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214a. Cladorhynchus lettcocephalus rottnesti, 

 subsp. n. 



Western Banded Stilt. 



Differs from C. I. leucocephalus in having the wings 

 black. 



Type, Rottnest Island, West Australia, No. 4,452. 

 Range, West Australia. 



Genus— LIMICOLA. 



Limicola Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., p. 316, 1816. 

 Type (by monotypy), L. jalcinellus Briinnich. 



233a. Limicola falctnellus sibirica. 

 Limicola sibirica Dresser, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 



1876, p. 674, Siberia. 

 Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper. 

 Range, North-west Australia. Extralimital. 



In the Tring Museum is a female specimen of this bird 

 obtained by J. P. Rogers at Broome, North-west Australia, 

 on October 16th, 1903. 



Investigation as to the name to be used for this bird, 

 commonly called Limicola platyrhyncha Temminck, of 

 which this is the first record for Australia, shows much of 

 interest. 



Dresser, at the place given, separated the eastern form 

 and noted : "It differs in the summer plumage in having 

 the feathers on the crown and entire upper parts very 

 broadly margined with bright rufous, so as to give this 

 colour extreme prominence," contrasting with the typical 

 form, in which " the general colouration of the upper 

 parts is black, the margins to the feathers being narrow 

 and white or ochreous white, and the crown is very dark," 

 also remarking that " the eastern bird has the wing and 

 tarsus rather longer," and that " in the winter plumage 

 the eastern one appears to be a trifle paler than the 

 European bird." Upon making comparisons I find the 

 Eastern form to be so distinct that I cannot understand 



