Order LIMICOL^.] 
[Fam. CHAEADEIIDiE. 
THINOENIS NOVjE ZEALANDIJI. 
(NEW.ZEALAND SHOEE-PLOVEE.) 
New-Zealcmd Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 206, pi. Ixxxiii. (1785). 
Charadrms now seelandice, Gm. Syst. Av. i. p, 684 (1788, ex Lath.). 
Charadrius novce zealandice. Lath. Inch Orn. ii. p. 745 (1790). 
Charadrius dudoroa, Wagler, Syst. Av. Charadrius, sp, 14 (1827). 
Iliaticula novce seelandicB, Gray, in DiefF. Trav. ii., App. p. 195 (1843). 
Thinornis novce seelandiw. Gray, Voy. Ereb. & Terror, Birds, p. 12, pi. 11 (1844). 
Thinornis rossii, id. op. cit. p. 12, pi. 11a (1844). 
Charadrius torquatula, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 108 (1844). 
Thinornis novm zelandice, Buller, Essay Orn. N. Z. p. 17 (1865). 
Thinornis novce zealandivB, Finsch, J. f. O. 1870, p. 341. 
Native names. — ILohutapu and Tuturuatu. 
Ad. supra grisescenti-cincreus : fronte, facie laterali et in collo undique postice duet^ torquem collarem formante, 
et gutture toto nigris : line^ alb^ ab oculo duct& pileum circumeunte : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus, 
majoribus albo terminatis : rcmigibus brunneis, primariis basin versbs albis, minoribus albo terminatis, 
secundariis exterioribus late albo marginatis, intimis dorso concoloribus ; cauda purpurascenti-brunnea, 
rectricibus exterioribus albo terminatis et basin versus gradatim albis, penna extima omninb alba : corpore 
reliquo subtus et subalaribus albis : rostro aurantiaco versus apicem nigro : pedibus aurantiacis : hide nigni. 
Juv. saturatius bruuneus : facie laterali ct gutture brunnescentibus, vix nigricnutibus : bypoeliondriis brunneo 
notatis. 
Adult. Forehead, sides of the bead, throat, fore part of neck, and a broad nuchal collar brownish black ; crown 
and hind part of the head browmish grey, being separated from the darker plumage by an ill-defined streak 
of white, which passes immediately over the eyes and widens on the forehead; back, shoulders, sides of the 
breast, and upper surface of wings brownish grey ; the whole of the underparts pure white ; primaries dark 
browm, with a streak of white along the shaft near the apieal extremity; tail-feathers dark brown, the lateral 
ones tipped with white, whieh increases outwardly, the outermost feather on each side being pirre white, and 
the adjoining one with merely a eentral spot of brown on its inner web. Iridcs black, with red eyelid; bill 
orange for rather more than half its length, then black to the tip ; tarsi and toes orange ; claws black. 
Length 7'5 inches; wing, from flexure, 4'75; tail 2'73 ; bill, along the ridge 1, along the edge of low'er 
mandible -9; bare tibia '5; tarsus ‘9 ; middle toe and claw -75. 
05s. The sexes are alike, exeept that the female is slightly smaller than the male, has all the eolours of the 
plumao-e duller, and less orange in the bill and feet. There is a speeimen of the latter in Mr. James Brog- 
deiBs colleetion at Porthcawl. 
Young. Differs from the adult in having the whole of the upper suirface darker, and the white streak on the 
forehead and sides of the head less eonspicuous ; the whole of the fore neck and upper part of the breast is 
dark brown * and this colour is continued on the sides of the body and flanks. 
Note. Ill the ^ Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,’ where both Thinornis novae sealandiae and the so-called Th. rossii 
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