Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
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314. ESACUS MAGNIROSTRIS (Vieill.). 
Big-billed Stone-Plover. 
a. Oedicnemus magnirostris [Gleoffr. MS.?]; (I) Vieill., N. D. XXm , 1818, 231, pi. G 39, 
f. 1; (II) Temm., PI. Ool. 387 (1826); (3) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Oui-sores, 1865, 22; 
(4) Seeb., Distr. Characlr. 1887, 89; (5) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 203. 
h. Burhinus magnirostris (1) Less., Tr. d’Orn. 1831, 547, partim. 
Esacus magnirostris (T) Gray, List Gen. & Snbgen. B. 1841, 83; (II) Gould, B. Austral. 
1848, VI, pi. 6, (3) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 346; (4) Gld., Hb. B. Austr. 1865, 
n, 213; (5) Finscli, Neu Guinea 1865, 181; (6) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, \411, 91; 
(7) Hume, Str. E. 1874, H, 116, 290; (8) id., ib. 1875, HI, 224; (9) id., ib. 1877, 
V, 121; (10) id., ib. 1878, VI, 458; (11) Eosenb., Malay. ArcMp. 1878, 277; 
(12) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 974; (13) E. L. & L. 0. Lay., Ibis 1882, 532; (14) 
W. Bias., J. f. O. 1884, 229; (15) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 203; (16) Earns., Tab. List 
1888, 19; (17) Oates, ed. Hume’s Nests and Eggs 1890, HI, 334; (18) Wiglesv., 
Av.Polyn.l892, 63; (19) Walker, Il)is 1892, 257; (20) Tristr. t. c. 299; (21) Grant, 
Ibis 1896, 127; (22) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 180, 250. 
c. Aesaeus magnirostris (1) Stxndev., Tentamen 1872, 128; (2) Earns., Pi’. L. Soc. N. S. W. 
1882, VH, 40; (3) Sharpe, Eeport Voy. Alert 1884, 26; (4) Tristr., Cat. Coll. 
B. 1889, 24; (5) Newton, Diet. B. 1893, 130. 
d. Orthorhamphus magnirostris (1) Salvad., Cat. Hoc. Borneo 1874, 312; (2) id., Orn. Pap. 
1882, HI, 290; (3) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. XLIV, 1885, 204; (4) Everett, 
Ibis 1886, 525; (5) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. LXIX, 1890, 415; (6) Heine & 
Ecliw., Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 333; (7) Salvador!, Orn. Pap. Agg. 1891, 198; 
(8) Sharpe, Oat. B. 1896, XXIV, 22, 722. 
“Wili-wili” (after the cry of the bird), Celebes, Eosenberg 11. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! d 2, d 7; Sharpe d 8. 
Figures and descriptions. Gould II, 4; Vieillot a I] Temminck all; Seebohm a 4 
(woodcut); Hume 7; Salvad. d 2] Sharpe d 8. 
Adult. Above drab-brown, with dark shaft-streaks, most pronounced on the head; lesser 
wing-coverts darker brown; the other wing-coverts and inner remiges drab- 
grey, separated from the lesser coverts by a white bar; primaries brown, the outer- 
most one white about the middle and on most of the inner web, the next two with 
a large space of white on the inner web only, the two following ones without white 
except towards base of inner web, the next four white, marked uuth brown on the 
first and two inner ones; secondaries white, drab-grey on exposed part of the outer 
webs, intensifying into a subterminal bar of dark brown; middle tail-feathers 
drab-brown marked with white and dusky at tip, the others crossed with a bar of 
white and tipped with black; face with a long superciliary and a subocular stripe 
black, the latter covering the anterior ear-coverts and meeting the former and passmg 
down the sides of neck; binder ear-coverts and a broad ring round eye not quite 
meeting in front white (forming white spectacles); short malar stripe black; chin, 
throat and rictal region white; under-parts wliite, becoming drab-grey on breast 
and jugulum, with dark shaft-streaks on the latter; entire wing below, Avhere it rests 
upon the body, white; “u’ides pale yellow; eyelids prinmose-yellow; base of the bill 
sulphur-yellow, which colour is continued along the sides of the upper mandible above 
the nostrils; tibiae lemon-yeUow ; tarsi and feet wine-yellow; the upper ridge of the 
scales of the toes lead-coloiu-” (Gould 4); wing 285 mm; tail 115; tarsus 90; 
middle toe 54; bill from forehead 72 (Gorontalo: Eiedel — 0 878). 
