^GIALITIS NIGRIFRONS. 
Fig. 1. 
^g, fronts strigdque pone oculos per plumas uuriculares ad nucham tendente,fascmque pectorali, nigris; 
strigd superciliari ad nucham ductd, et super vittam nigram, alba ; vertice, dorso, tertialibus, aldque 
medid fuscis ; scapularihus intciise castanets ; tectricibus alee majoribus albis, primariis nigris ; 
gtdd, abdomine, crissoque albis ; rectricibus caudce duabus intermediis ad basin fuscis, ad apicem 
nigris ; tribus proximis ad basin albis, in fusco transeuntibus, et albo terminatis, reliquis albis ; 
rostro ad basin aurantiaco, ad apicem nigro ; pedibus aurantiacis. 
Long. tot. 6^ unc. ; rostri, | ; ala, 4^ ; caudce, '2,\ ; tarsi, 1. 
Forehead, a stripe commencing at the eye passing over the ear-coverts and round the back of 
the neck, and a broad band crossing the chest and advancing somewhat down the centre of tiie breast, 
black ; a stripe of white passes over each eye and continues round the back of the neck, separating 
the black band from the crown, which with the back, the long tertials, and the middle of the wing are 
brown ; scapularies deep chestnut ; tips of the greater coverts white, forming an obscure band across 
the wing ; pi'iraaries black ; throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts M-hite ; two middle tail-feathers 
brown at the base and black at the tip ; the next three on each side white at the base gradually passing 
into blackish brown and largely tipped with white, the remainder entirely white ; bill orange at the 
base and black at the tip ; feet orange. 
Syn. Charadrius nigrifrons, Cuv. in Mus. Paris. — Temm. PI. Col., 47- fig. 1. — Wagl. Syst. Av., 
sp. 20. 
melanops, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 139. 
Habitat, Australia : locality, New South Wales. 
^GIALITIS MONACHl S. 
Fig. 2. 
^g.capite, collo anticefascidquedorsali fnliginoso-atris ; nucha corporeque subtus albis ; dorso scapula- 
ribus tertiariisque cano-fuscis ; aid medid, pogoniis internis primarium ad basin secun dariisque albis ; 
pogoniis primarium exierne interneque, parte ba.sali exceptd, nigris ; rectricibus cauda> duabus in- 
termediis nigris, tribus sequentibus externis ad apicem, et ad basin albis, parte centrali nigra, rec- 
tricibus reliquis albis ; rostro ad basin aurantiaco, ad apicem nigro ; pedibus aurantiacis. 
Long. tot. 8i unc; rostri, |; alcB, 5\; caudce, 2^; tarsi, 1. 
Head, fore part of the neck, and a band across the upper part of the back sooty black ; back of the 
neck and all the under surface white ; back, shoulders, and tertials greyish brown ; centre of the wing 
and the basal portion of the internal webs of the primaries and secondaries white, the rest black ; two 
middle tail-feathers black; the three next on each side white at the base and tip and black in the centre ; 
the remaining feathers wholly white ; bill orange at the base and black at the tip ; legs orange. 
Syn. Charadritis Monuchus, Geoff, in Mus. Paris. — Wagl. Syst. A v., sp. 15. 
cucullatus, Vieill., Nouv, Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 136. 
Habitat. Australia. 
^GIALITIS BICINCTUS. 
Fig. Ji. 
■^g. supra brunnescens, fasciis Jlavescentibus ; fronte albo ; subtus albus, cingnlo pectorali nigro ; cdtero 
abdominali castaneo ; lumdd frontali alba ; hujus ad marginem superior cm jilmn is nigris ; pri- 
mariis ad murgines exfernas nigrescenti-fuscis, ad internas pallidiorihus ; guld albd, liued angustd 
nigrd, circumdald, ad lorum oriente, per colli latera tendente et in vittam lata m pectora lent mergente; 
transversd vittd abdominali abdomineque medio Icete castaneis ; abdomine reliquo albo ; rectricibus 
Cauda duabus intermediis ciyierascenti-fuscis ; rectricibus reliquis pallidioribus, externis duabus 
albis ; rostro ad apicem nigro, ad basin jlavescente ; pedibus nigri-viridibus. 
Long. tot. 6f unc. ; rostri, ^; alec, 4f ; caudce, 2f ; tarsi, 1^. 
A broad stripe of white crosses the forehead, above which the feathers are black, which colour 
gradually passes into the uniform pale brown which covers the whole of the upper surface ; outer 
webs of the primaries blackish brown ; inner webs paler ; throat white, surrounded with a narrow 
line of black which commences above the upper mandible and continues down the sides of the neck 
and forms a broad band across the breast ; across and down the centre of the abdomen a broad band 
of bright chestnut; the rest of the under surface pure white; two centre tail-feathers greyish brown, 
those on each side paler, and the exterior ones white ; bill black at the tip, yellowish at the base ; 
feet blackish green. 
Syn. Charadrius bicinctus, Jard. and Selb., 111. Orn., vol. i. pi. 28. 
Chestnut-breasted Plover, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ix. p. 324. 
Habitat. Australia: locality. New Holland. *^ 
