Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 
No. 163. 
Family CHARADRIIDM. 
ERYTHROGONYS CINOTUS CINOTUS. 
RED-KNEED DOTTEREL. 
Erythrogonys CINOTUS Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 73, 1838 ; New South 
Wales. 
Erythrogonys cinctus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 73, 1838 ; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 155, 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 21, 1841 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 240, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 
p. 188, 1877 ; id., ib., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; id., ih., Vol. VII., p. 412, 1883 ; 
id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 307, 
1889 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., ser. 2, Vol. IV., p. 419, 1889 ; 
Legge, Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 977, 1892 ; Campbell, ih., Vol. V., 
p. 437, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 125, 1896 ; HaU, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 80, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 780, 
1901 ; Lyons, Emu, Vol. I., p. 136, 1902 ; Bemey, ih., Vol. II., p. 212, 1903 ; 
id., ih., Vol. IV., p. 46, 1904 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 80, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, 
Vol. VI., p. Ill, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 23, 1908. 
Erythrogonus cinctus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 73, 1838. 
Vanellus rufiventer Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 11th year. No. 9, col. 207, 1844 ; 
id., Descr. Mamm. Ois., p. 239, 1847. 
Erythrogonys cincta Reichenbach, Natur. Syst., Vogel, p. xviii., 1852. ^ 
Vanellus cinctus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. IV., Cursores, p. 59, 1865. \ 
Erythrogonys rufiventris Gray, Handl. Gen. Spec. Birds, pt. ni., p. 12, 1871. 
Charadrius rufiventris Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 108, 1887. 
Charadrius rufiventer id., ih., pi. ni. 
Erythrogonys cinctus cinctus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 214, 1912 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia. 
Adult. Differs from E. c. mixtus in being lighter above and in having the chestnut flank- 
feathers more conspicuous. The black band on the breast is also somewhat wider. 
Total length 190 mm. ; culmen 21, wing 110, tail 45, tarsus 43. 
Nestling, three weeks old. “ The crown and back are brown, each feather being tipped 
with a lighter shade, which give it a mottled appearance. AU the under-surface 
is white, including the throat, and also a band just behind the crown extending 
to the back of the eye, and adjoining this white band, but behind it, is a black 
one extending to the lower part of the eye. The primaries are black shghtly tipped 
35 
