Ordes IIMICOLE.J 
[Fam. CHARADKIIDyE. 
ANARHYNCHUS FRONTALIS. 
(WRY-BTLLED PLOVER.) 
narhyncJius frontalis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de I’Astr. Zool. i. p. 252, pi. 31. fig. 2 (1830). 
-Lnmorms% frontalis. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 545 (1847). 
narhynchus alhifrons, Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 435 (1857). 
Charadrius frontalis. Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 234. 
Thinornis frontalis. Gray, Hand-1, of B. iii. p. 17 (1871). 
Native name. — Ngutupare. 
P ^ ute cinereus, scapularibus et tcctricibus alarum dorso concoloribus : al^ spurid brunnell ; remigibiis 
enti brunneis, versus apicem conspicue saturatioribus, scapis albidis : seeundariis cinereis, dorso 
conco on us : cauda cmerascenti-brunnca, rectricibus exterioribus pallide cineraceis, extimis albicantibus ; 
ion e et supercilio distincto albidis: linea sccundii frontali nigrS.: Iine4 per oeulura duct^ et regionem 
P m amplectente cineracea ; subtus albus, torque pectorali lato nigro ■. subalaribus albis, imis cinereo 
ava IS . rostro nigro : pedibus nigricanti-viridibus vix cinerascentibus : iride nigra. 
Juv. similis, sed sine torque pectorali. 
^ upper surface uniform dark grey, the wing-coverts edged with 
dusl brown on their outer webs and at the tips, with white shafts, and the inner webs 
us cy grey; the inferior primaries marked with white on their basal portion; secondaries and their long 
and^t’"^*'^^^'^™^* dusky grey ; the middle tail-feathers greyish brown, the outer ones silvery grey, margined 
the white ; forehead, throat, and all the uuderparts pure white, a narrow line of black bordering 
rail " foi’chead ; the upper part of the breast crossed by a broad band of velvety black, which is gene- 
^ / tinder tail- coverts and lining of wings pure white. Irides and bill black; legs 
fnllr^ ®-ckish green tinged with grey. Total length 8 inches; wing, from flexure, 4 ‘75 ; tail 2; bill, 
wing the curvature, 1-4; bare tibia -4; tarsus 1 ; middle toe and claw 1-05. 
diillp,. m T male, but without the frontal black line, and with the pectoral band much narrower, of a 
Diack, and sometimes interrupted in the middle. 
nrooT upper parts as in the adult, but paler ; no pectoral band ; under surface pure white. The 
war s maturity is indicated by a narrow irregular zone of sooty black mottled with white. 
frecMori II silky-looking down of a stone-grey colour (similar to the upper surface of the adult) 
nounced in brown. The curved bill is congenital, being quite as pro- 
‘ip ; leg, “* 
pffords aiiothe ' ^ distinguished from all other Waders by its peculiar asymmetrical bill, 
first mad distinctive character of the New-Zealand avifauna. The species 
Expedition in th science by MM. Quoy and Gaimard, who obtained it during the French 
specimens of th^ 1826-29, and gave a figure of it in the ‘Voyage of the Astrolabe; ’ but no 
VOL. II ^ N^narliynchus having, for many years after, been received in Europe, Mr. G. 
