Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 176. 
Family CHARADRIIDjE. 
LEUCOPOLIUS EUFIOAPILLUS RUFICAPILLUS. 
EED-CAPPED DOTTEREL. 
Chaeadrius RuriCAPiLLirs Temminck and Laugier, Plan. Col. d’Ois., 8* livr., Vol. I., 
pi. 47, fig. 2, 1821 ; New South Wales. 
CJiaradrius ruficapillus Temminck and Laugier, Plan. Col. d’Ois., 8* livr., Vol. I., 
pi. 47, fig. 2, 1821 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 164, 1887 ; BuUer, Birds 
New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 5, 1888. 
Charadrius marginatus Lesson, Traite d’Om., p. 544, 1831. 
Mgialitis ? canus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 6, 1838 (New South Wales). 
Hiaticula ruficapilla Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 71, 1844 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 17, 1846 ; Kirk, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1879, Vol. XII., 
p. 246. 1880 ; Keartland, Birds Melb. Distr., p. 115, 1900. 
Mgialitis ruficapillus Beichenbach, Novit. Syn. Avium., No. 2423-25, 1851 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 197, 1878 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, 
p. 337 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 19, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, 
p. 306, 1889 ; Legge, Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., 1892, p. 975 ; Campbell, 
ib., Vol. V., 1893, p. 436 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 286, 
1896; North, Birds County Cumberl., p. Ill, 1898; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 82, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 794, 1901; HaU, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 65, pi. VI., 1902 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 46, 1904 ; id., ib., 
Vol. VI., p. 112, 1907 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 82, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 25, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 463 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 131, 1910. 
Mgialophilus ruficapillus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 235, 1865. 
Charadrius ruficapillus ruficapillus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 217, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, 
(New Zealand, accidental). 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. Similar to the adult male of C. r. tormenti but darker 
and slightly smaller. 
Adult male, in winter-plumage. Very similar to the adult male of C. r. tormenti. 
Adult female. Very similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Lacks the black on the lores, forehead, and sides of the breast. The feathers 
of the head and back are brown with light buff edges. 
“ Young in down is white underneath, and the upper parts are mottled with 
yeUowish-brown and black ” (CampbeU). 
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