GREAT-BEAKED THICK-KNEE. 
(CEdicnemus magnirostris.) 
Q2d. rostro dilatato, corpore nigro strinto supra ccerulescentet 
subtus cinerasceniCy macula remigum albCiy pedibus cmruleis. 
Thick-knee with a dilated beak ; the body above bluish, striated 
with black ; beneath greyish ; quills with a w hite spot ; feet 
blue, 
Charadrius magnirostris. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixvi. 2. 
Great-billed Plover. Lath. Spn. Sup. II. 319* 8. 
This bird is thus briefly noticed by Latham : 
“ Size of the Golden Plover : beak black, stout, 
and very broad, resembling the Tody genus : the 
general colour of the upper parts is blue-grey, 
streaked with black ; beneath pale ash, but with 
the same markings : forehead, part of the crown 
and ears, minutely spotted : quills black : base of 
several of the primaries white : legs dull blue. 
Inhabits New South Wales.’* I have placed this 
species in this genus on the authority of Vieillot, 
who considers it to form a distinct section from 
the former, differing in its beak, which is very 
strong and compressed, and has its lower mandible 
angulated. 
