Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 180. 
Family CHARADRIIDM. 
ELSEYA MELANOPS MELANOPS. 
BLACK-FRONTED DOTTEREL. 
(Plate 140.)* 
Charadrius MELANOPS VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 139, 1818; 
New South Wales. 
Charadrius melanops Vieillot, Nouv, Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 139, 1818 ; id., 
Galer. des Ois., Vol. II., p. 98, pi. 235, 1825. 
Charadrius nigrifrons Temminok and Laugier, Plan. Col. d’Ois., 8® livr., Vol. I., pi. 47, 
fig. 1, 1821 (New South Wales) ; Seebolun, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 138, 1887. 
Mgialitis nigrifrons Boie, Isis 1826, p. 978 ; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pi. 32, 1837 ; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 232, 1865 ; Harting, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 
1874, p. 459, pi. LX. ; Eiamsay, Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; 
id., Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1877, p. 336 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, Vol. VII., 
p. 438, 1878 ; Ramsay, Tabl. List. Austr. Birds, p. 19, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Cat., No. 12, p. 304, 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. 974, 1892 ; 
Campbell, ib., Vol. V., p. 435, 1893 ; North, Report Horn. Sei. Exp., pt. n., 
p. 104, 1896 ; Heartland, Birds Helb. Distr., p. 115, 1900 ; Campbell, Emu, 
Vol. VII., p. 157, 1908. 
Hiaticula nigrifrons Gray, List Spee. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 71, 1844 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 20, 1845 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App.,'p. 49, 
1849. 
jFgialitis melanops Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 300, 1896 ; North, Birds 
County Cumberl., p. 110, 1898; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 83, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 795, 1901 ; Bemey, Emu, Vol. II., p. 212, 1903 ; 
Freneh, ih., Vol. III., p. 110, 1903 ; Berney, ib., Vol. IV., p. 47, 1904 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 83, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 112, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 25, 1908 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 216, 1909 ; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 132, 1912 ; HaU, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 210, 1912. 
Erythrogonys cinctus (not Gould) Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., Birds, p. 148, 1906. 
Charadrius melanops melanops Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 218, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Vietoria, Tasmania, South Australia. 
* The Plate is lettered Charadrius melanops. 
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