Order CHARADBIIF0RME8 
No. 158. 
Family HMMATOPODIDJ8. 
HiEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS LONGIROSTRIS. 
PIED OYSTEKCATCHEE. 
(Plate 126.) 
Hjematopus longirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XV., p. 410, 1817 ; New 
South Wales. 
Hcematopus longirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XV., p. 410, 1817 ; Gould, 
Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 7, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 215, 
1865 ; Masters, Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 60, 1876 ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., 
p. 197, 1878 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 304, 1887 (pars) ; Ramsay, 
Tabl. List Austr. Birds, p. 19, 1888 (pars) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, 
p. 299, 1889 (pars) ; Legge, Austr. Assoe. Adv. Sei., Vol. IV., p. 981, 1892 ; 
Campbell, ih., Vol. V., p. 426, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., 
p. 112, 1896 (pars) ; North, Birds County Cumber!., p. 109, 1898 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 80, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 776, 1901 ; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 208, 1903 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 80, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 23, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 462 ; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 122, 1910 ; Campbell and White, Emu, Vol. X., p. 198, 
1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 183 ; Carter, ih., p. 657. 
Hcematopus australasianus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 6, 1838 (New 
South Wales). 
Ostralegus longirostris Reiehenbaeh, Nat. Syst., Vogel, p. xii., 1852. \^\ 
Hcematopus longirostris Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 187, 1877. 
Hcematopus longirostris longirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 213, 1912. 
Hcematopus longirostris mattingleyi id., ih. (Cooktown). 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Vietoria, Tasmania, South Australia, 
South-west Australia. 
Adult male. Head and neck all round, back, wings, and tail black ; lower-back, rump, 
upper tail-coverts, and base of tail white, like the breast, abdomen, axiUaries, and 
under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts black margined and tipped with white ; 
some of the feathers on the upper-breast fringed with white at the tips ; upper 
greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white ; secondary- quiUs white at the 
base with black tips. A few black feathers on the thighs; bill scarlet, cream- 
colour at the tip ; iris and eyehd red ; feet pinkish-red. Total length 500 mm. ; 
culmen 82, wing 282-7, tail 116, tarsus 61. 
Adult female. Similar in colour of plumage to the adult male but larger and with a 
longer bill. 
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