OLADOKHYNCHUS. SHI 



Specimens taken by M. H. Bennett during October 1886, 

 at Ivanhoe, New South Wales, measure as follows :— length (A) 

 l-72xl-3inch; (B) 1-75 x 1-34 inch; (0) 1-73 x 1-31 inch; (D) 

 1-78 X 1-35 inch. 



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

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 

 District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 

 Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South- 

 West Australia, South Coast of New Guinea. (Ramisay.) 



Genus CLADOEHYNCHUS, G. E. Gray. 



OLADORHYNCHUS PECTORALIS, Dubus, 

 Banded StUt. 

 Gould, Handhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 518, p. 248. 



" The eggs are four in number for a sitting placed in a scanty 

 nest of a few dry reeds and water grasses ; the ground colour 

 varies from an olive-brown to creamy-brown irregularly spotted 

 and blotched with black, in shape oval but slightly pointed. 

 Length (A) 1-9 x 1-4 inch ; (B) 1-88 x 1-3 inch." {Ramsay,P.L.8., \ 

 N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 57.) ' 



Hob. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, West 

 and South-West Australia. {^Ramsay.') 



Family SCOLOPACIDiE. 



Genus RHYNCH^A, Cuvier. 



RHYNCH^A AUSTRALIS, Gould. 



Australian Ehsmolisea. 



GouW, Handbk., Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 534, p. 274. ^^^^ '^. , 



The eggs of this bird have several times been erroneously, 

 described as those of Gallinago australis, but recently on receipt 



