VISCOUNT "WALDEN ON THE BIKDS OE CELEBES. 91 



Stebpsilas, Illiger. 



143. Strepsilas interpres (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 248 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Cursores, p. 43. 

 Hab. Celebes {Mus. Lugd.) : almost universal. 



Esacus, Lesson. 



144. Esacus magnirostris (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire) : Vieill. N. Diet, xxiii. p. 231 (1818), 



nee Latham. 

 (Edicnemus magnirostris, Geoffroy, Temm. PI. Col. 387, " Celebes;" Wagler, Syst. Av. Charadrius, 



no. 3, "New Holland" (1827) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 22. 

 Charadrius giganteus, Lichtenst. ; Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 647, " New Holland." 

 Esacus magnirostris, Geoffroy, Gould, Hand-b. B. Austr. ii. p. 213. 

 (Latham), Wall. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 346, nee Latham. 



Hab. Celebes (Beinwardt) ; Island of Eaou, near Morty, Island of Moor, east coast of 

 Gilolo, "Waigiou, Bangka (Mus. Lugd.) ; northern and north-western parts of Australia 

 (Gould) ; Sula Islands, New Guinea (Wallace). 



The Australian " Great-billed Plover " of Latham (Syn. Supp. ii. p. 319, C. magni- 

 rostris, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. 66) has been shown by Mr. Strickland (Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 xi. p. 337) to be nothing but (Edicnemus grallarius (Lath.). Consequently Illiger's 

 genus Burhinus (Prodrom. p. 250, 1811), founded on G. magnirostris, Lath., is syno- 

 nymous, not with Esacus, but with (Edicnemus, over which generic title it takes 

 priority. 



The name magnirostris, Geoffroy, seems to have been an unpublished museum title. 

 I can find no earlier description of the species than that of Vieillot*s (I. c), who adopted 

 the name from the Paris Museum. 



Temminck figured (I. c.) a Celebean example collected by Beinwardt ; but he united 

 with it as belonging to one species individuals from India, Java, and les ties Papous. 

 The Celebean bird in size, he observes, holds a middle place between the Indian and 

 the Papuan, the last being the largest and having the plumage very dark-coloured. 

 The Indian E. recurvirostris (Cuv.) is a recognized species ; but may not the Celebean 

 bird prove to be a species distinct from the Australian ] Professor Schlegel unites the 

 archipelagic with the Australian ; -but have they been compared 1 



Himantopus, Brisson. 



145. Himantopus leucocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 26, "Australia, Java, 



Sumatra;" Birds Austr. vi. pi. 24; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, 

 p. 106 ; conf. Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 35. 



Hab. Gorontalo, October 9 (Forsten) ; Ayer-pannas, August 14 ; Limbotto, August 

 29 ; Wawou, a few days old, August 27 (Bosenberg) ; Bengal (H. intermedius, Blyth, 



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