CHARADRIUS. 



Ill 



CHARADRIUS TOTANIROSTRIS. 



SLENDER-BILLED DOTTEREL. (Plate IV.) 



Charadrius abdomine macula nigra magna, ornate- : axillaribus albis : cauda striga nigra prope 

 apicem fasciata. 



No local forms of this species are known. 



Diagnosis. 



Variations. 



Charadrius rufieollis 1 , LicM.fide Wagler, Ms, 1829, p. 653. 



Oreopholus totanirostris, ■ Jardine §• Selby, III. Orn. iii. pi. 151 (1835). 



Hoplopterus ruficollis [Wagler), Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 542 (1847). 



Dromiceius lessoni, Lesson, fide •) _ , .... _„„ /n0 cc\ 



... _ ... ,„';, \Bonap. Compt. Rend. aim. p. 597 (1856). 



Oreophuus ruficollis (Wagler), J 



Morinellus totanirostris (Jard. % Selb.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursor es, p. 47 (1865). 



1 The name of Charadrius ruficollis is a very objectionable one, as it has been applied to other species of 

 Plovers. There is an apparently mythical O. ruficollis of Cuvier, which frequently crops up in the synonymy. 

 In 1S44 Schlegel (Eev. Grit. Ois. Eur. p. 95) quotes it as a MS. name in the Paris Museum, and refers it to 

 C. mongolicus. Pucheran in his paper on Cuvier's types in the Paris Museum (Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, 

 p. 282) suggests that it may be Temminck's Pluvier a poitrine rousse (Cat. Syst. Cab. d'Orn. pp. 173, 262), 

 a Plover from Namaqua Land, which was doubtless an example of Charadrius asiaticus. Hartlaub doubtfully 

 refers the C. ruficollis of Cuvier to C. mongolian (Journ. Orn. 1855, p. 420) ; but in 1873 Heuglin adds it 

 without a query to the synonyms of that species (Orn. Nordost Afric. ii. p. 1023). Wagler quotes it as a 

 MS. name of Lichtenstein in the Berlin Museum. Under any circumstances the wisest plan is to allow the 

 name to vanish in the limbo of synonyms. 



Synonymy. 



