EEOUEVmoSTEA. 30? 



Specimens taken by the late Mr. W. Liscombe at Wiloannia, 

 in October 1883. measure as follows: — length (A) 1-25 x 0-93 

 inch ; (B) 1-27 x 0-95 inch ; (C) 1-28 x 0-95 inch. 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Cape York, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior. {Bamsay) 



Sub-Family HIMANTOPODINJE. 



Genus EECUKVIKOSTKA, Linnceus. 



REOURVIROSTRA RUBRICOLLIS, Temminch. 

 Eed-neoked Avocet. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 519, p. 249. lESZ /, 



" Mr. K. H. Bennett informs me that this species lays four 

 eggs for a sitting, and breeds during the months of September to 

 December, laying its eggs on the bare ground without making 

 any nest, and sometimes close to the water's edge. The present 

 specimens w^re found among the herbage usually growing about 

 the sheep tanks in the interior of the country, and were taken in 

 the Lachlan district ; the ground colour varies from light stone 

 colour to creamy-yellow, some of the former tint have a faint 

 olive-green shade, some are heavily blotched towards the thicker 

 end, others sparingly covered with spots, dots, and freckles of 

 dark umber-brown and black, with a few obsolete spots of slate- 

 grey. A set measures as follows : — length (A) 2x1-4 inches ; (B)w" 

 1-35 X 0-95 inch; (0) 1-4 x 0-95 inch; (D) 1-3 x 0-95 inch. ^ 

 From Mr. Bennett's Collection." {Rammy, P.L.S., N.S. W., Yol. 3 

 vii., p. 411.) 



During 1887 Mr. Bennett found these birds breeding in large 

 colonies on the margin of a lake in the interior of. New South 

 Wales. 



