SCHCENICLUS MAGNUS, Gould. 
Great Sandpiper. 
Schceniclus magnus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., February 22, 1848. 
This is one of the few birds that I have not been able to obtain for my own eollection ; there are, however, 
two specimens in the country ; one in the British Museum, which was obtained on the north coast of 
Australia ; the other, which was procured at Swan River, is in the possession of the Hon. Charles Neville, a 
gentleman much attached to natural history. It is one of the most singular species of the Tringce, being 
in size fully equal to the Ruff, while its form is precisely that of the Dunlin. On comparing it with a bird 
in the Museum of the East India Company, which has been named Totams temirostris by my friend Dr. 
Horsfield, I find it to be very nearly allied to that species. 
Its great size has suggested the term magnus which I have applied to it ; and the following is an accurate 
description : — 
Crown of the head and the neck brownish grey, each feather with a stripe of brown down tbe centre ; 
back and wings brown, broadly margined with brownish grey ; primaries blackish brown ; rump white, 
each feather tipped with brown ; tail brownish grey ; feathers of the breast dark brown, with a crescent of 
white at the extremity ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; flanks mottled with brown ; bill, feet and 
irides olive. 
The figure is of the natural size. 
