Order GHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 178. 
Family CHARADRIIDM. 
CHARADRIUS CUCULLATUS OUCULLATUS. 
HOODED DOTTEREL. 
(Plate 139.) 
Charadrixjs CUCULLATUS VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 136, 1818 ; 
New South Wales. 
Charadrius cucullatus VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 136, 1818. 
Charadrius monachus Wagler, Syst. Av., Charad., p. 60, sp. 15, 1827 (New South Wales) ; 
Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charad., p. 127, pi. 5, 1887. 
Mgialitis monachus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. 32, 1837 ; id., Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 231, 1865 ; Legge, Pap. and Proe. Roy. Soe. Tasm. 1874, p. 34, 
1875 ; Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; id., ib., Vol. VII., 
p. 57, 1882 ; id., Tab, List Austr. Birds, p, 19, 1888 ; Legge, Pap. and Proe, Roy. 
Soe. Tasm, 1887, p. 94, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 304, 1889 ; 
Legge, Austr. Assoe. Adv. Sei., Vol. IV., p. 974, 1892 ; CampbeU, ib., Vol. V., 
p. 434, 1893. 
Hiaticula monacha Gray, List. Spee. Brit. Mus., pt. iii., p, 70, 1844 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
Vol. VI., pi. 18, 1848. 
Hiaticula cucullata Liehtenstein, Nomenel. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 94, 1854. 
Mgialitis cucullatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p 302, 1896 ; North, 
Birds County Cumberl., p. 110, 1898 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 83, 1899 ; 
CampbeU, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 797, 1901 ; id., Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 209, 1903 ; Berney, ib., p. 212 ; MaeLaine, ib., Vol. III., p. 64, 1903 ; HaU, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 83, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 25, 1908; 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 133, 1910. 
Cho-radrius cucullatus cucullatus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 218, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Vietoria, Tasmania, South AustraUa. 
Adult male. Baek, wing-eoverts, seapulars, and long innermost seeondaries ashy-grey ; 
outer edge of wing white ; bastard-wing brown ; smaU eoverts near the edge of the 
wing and primary-coverts brown tipped with white, the four outer primary-quUls 
dark brown, the remainder white tipped with brown ; secondaries similar in colour, 
some of the inner ones entirely white ; head and throat black as also a coUar on the 
upper-mantle which joins the black of the throat on the sides of the neck ; a black 
patch on the sides of the breast, the feathers of which have white tips ; a collar 
on the hind-neck and the entire under-surface pure white, including the axiUaries ; 
bill yellowish-red, tip black ; iris hazel, eyeUds scarlet ; tarsi and feet flesh-pink. 
Total length 215 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 145, tail 66, tarsus 27. 
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