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88 Hooded Dottrel, yE\ cucullata, A., T. Stat. c. shore 8.3 
Head, throat, upper-back black; hind-neck, under whit?*; 
lower-back light brownish-gray; middle tail feathers 
black, rest tipped white; scarlet ring round eye; f., 
crown mottled black, white. Sand-hoppers, worms. 
1 80 Australian Dottrel, Peltohyas australis, A. =vt. Eur. 
1 Common Dottrel. Mig. v.r. plains (interior) 8 
Upper sandy-buff mottled with dark-brown; black band 
across top of head from eye to eye; black collar on 
hind-neck continued as a narrow V across chest; fore- 
head, throat white; m., duller. Insects. 
1 90 White-headed Stilt (Pied), Longshanks, Stilt -bird, 
7 Long-legged Plover, Himantopvs leucocephalus. Great 
Sunda Is., Mol., N.G., A. =vt. Eur. Stilt. 
Nom. r. swamps, lakes 15 
White; hind-neck, back, wings black; long legs pink; f., 
smaller. Insects, pond-snails. 
1 01 Banded Stilt, Rottnest Snipe (e), Cladorhynchus 
1 levcocephalus, A. Nom. v.r. shallow lakes 13.5 
White; broad chestnut band on breast; wings, centre of 
abdomen black; long bill black. Plaintive whistle. 
1 92 Red-necked Avocet, Cobbler, Cobbler's Awl, Painted 
4 Lady, Scooper, Recurvirostra novae-holla ndiae, A., T., 
N.Z. =vt. cos. bird. Nom. r. lakes, tidal bays 15.5 
White; head, neck chestnut; wings black; f., sim. Shell- 
fish, insects. 
2 03 Australian Curlew, Sea-Curlew, Isfuwenius cyanopus, 
9 E. Sib., Japan to A. =vt. Eur. Common Curlew. 
Mig. c. tidal shores m., 21; f., 24 
Arched bill Tin. ; mottled brown; f., larger. Crabs, worms. 
