THE BIEDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
alike, while all the other unsigned ones differ altogether in style, and maybe 
two other artists painted them. In the present case No. 245 is unsigned, and 
forms the basis of the Grisled Plover of Latham {Gen. Synops., Suppl., Vol. II., 
p. 320), which was named Charadrius griseus in the Supplement to the Index 
Ornith., p. Ixvii. This was correctly identified by Sharpe as referable to 
this species. 
No. 253 is a painting by Watling, and from it Latham described his Brown 
Plover in the Gen. Synops., Suppl., Vol. II., p. 320. The description there 
given reads : “ This species has the habit of our Golden Plover ; bill black ; 
irides yeUow ; legs lead colour ; plumage above a mottled brown ; beneath 
brownish-white, a little mottled ; tail black, dotted with white ; legs lead 
colour. Inhabits New South Wales.” Probably Sharpe never read this, as his 
identification is given as “ ? Limonites ruficollis,^^ and no reference is given 
to Charadrius fuscus Latham, Index Ornith.^ Suppl., p. Ixvi., which, however, 
depends upon Latham’s Brown Plover alone. There seems no reason for the 
reference to Limonites ruficollis, as the painting faithfully shows the Pluvialine 
bill of the present species, and though a poor figure, is easily recognisable ; 
indeed it is much more like P. d. fulvus than is drawing No. 245, which Sharpe 
placed there without hesitation. 
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