Order CHARADBII FORMES 
No, 168. 
Family CHARADRIIDjE. 
ZONIPER TRICOLOR TRICOLOR. 
BLACK-BREASTED PLOVER. 
Charadrius tricolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 147, 1818 ; Nevr 
South Wales. 
Charadrius tricolor VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 147, 1818. 
Charadrius pecioralis Wagler, Syst. Av., Charad., p. 58, sp. 8, 1827. 
Sarciophorus tricolor Striekland, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1841, p. 33. 
Sarciophorus pectoralis Gould, Birds Austr., VoL VI,, pi. 11, 1842 ; Sturt, Jour. Exp. Centr. 
Austr., Vol. II,, App., p. 48, 1849 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 222, 
1866 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1867, p. 420, pi. ix., fig. 3 ; Harting, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 
1874, p. 458 ; Ramsay, ib. 1877, p. 336; id., Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 187, 
1877 ; id,, ib., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 19, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No 12, p. 302, 1889 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proe. Linn. Soe. 
N.S.W., 2nd ser., Vol. IV., p. 419, 1889 ; Legge, Austr. Assoe. Adv. Sei., Vol. IV., 
p. 978, 1892 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. V., p. 430, 1893 ; North, Agrie. Gaz. N.S.W., 
Vol. XVI., p. 1015, 1905. 
Hoplopterus tricolor Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 542, 1847. 
Charadrius vanelloides Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp., p. 240, 1848 (c/. 2nd ed., p. 328, 1858). 
Lobivanellus pectoralis Sehlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. IV., Cursores, p. 66, 1865 ; Seebohm, 
Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 200, 1887. 
Hoplopterus pectoralis Gray, Handl. Gen. Spee. Birds, Vol. III., p. 13, 1871. 
Chettusia {Lobivanellus) pectoralis Finseh, Proe. Aead. Nat. Sei. Philad. 1872, p. 32. ^ 
Zonifer tricolor Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 154, 1896 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 784, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 81, 1906 ; Bemey, 
Emu, Vol. VI., p. 112, 1907 ; Austin, ib., Vol. VII., p. 77, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 24, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 125, 1910. 
Zonijer tricolor tricolor Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 216, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Vietoria, Tasmania, South Australia. 
Adult male. Differs from Z. t. gwendolenoe in having the blaek band on the breast wider, 
and the wattle before the eye much smaller, and lighter in coloration. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
est. A depression in the ground, fined with dead sticks, etc. 
Eggs. Clutch, four ; ground-colour stone, covered all over with spots of reddish-purple 
and lavender ; axis 42-44, diameter 30-31. 
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