GREAT-BEAKED THICK-KNEE. 

 (CEdicnemus magnirostris.) 



QEd. rosti'o dilatato, corpore nigro striato supra ccErulescentCf 

 subtus ci?ierascenie, macula remigum alba, pedibus ccEruleis, 



Thick-knee with a dilated beak ; the body above bluish, striated 

 with black j beneath greyish ; quills with a white spot ; feel 

 blue. 



Charadrius magnirostris. Lath, Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixvi. 2. 

 Great-billed Plover. Lath. Syn. Sup, II, SIQ. 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. 



