Order GHARADRI1F0RME8 
No. 182. 
Family RECURVIROSTRIDM 
HYPSIBATES LEUCOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. 
WHITE-HEADED STILT. 
HmAifTOPUs LEUCOCEPHALUS Gould, Sjnops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. 34, 1837 ; New 
South Wales. 
Himantopus leucocephalus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. ii., pi. 34, 1837 ; id., Birds- 
Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 24, 1841 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 50, 
1849 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 246, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Loud.) 1867, p. 600 ; id., ib. 1877, p. 337 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 198, 1878 ; Seebohm, Ibis 1886, p. 233 ; id., Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 283,, 
1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat.,. 
No. 12, p, 310, 1889; Legge, Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 964, 1892 ; 
Campbell, ib., Vol. V., p. 440, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., 
p. 317, 1896 ; North, Rep. Horn Sci. Exp., pt. n., Zool., p. 104, 1896 ; id., Birds 
County Cumberl., p. Ill, 1898 ; Heartland, Birds Melb. Distr., p. 115, 1900 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 801, 1901 ; Lyons, Emu, Vol. I., p. 138, 
1902 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. II., p. 17, 1902 ; Bryant, ib., Vol. V., p. 25, 1905 ; 
HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 83, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 113, 1907 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 26, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., pp. 3 and 
55, 1909 ; Littler, Handl. Birds Tasm., p. 134, 1910 ; French, Viet. Nat., Vol. 
XXVIII., p. 182, 1912 ; id.. Emu, Vol, XI., p. 209, 1912. 
Himantopus novce-hoUandice Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p, 421,^ 
1856 ; substitute-name for H. leucocephalus Gould. 
Himantopus seebohmi Hartert, Katal. Vogels. Mus. Senckenberg, p. 220, 1891 (substitute- 
name for H. leucocephalus Gould). 
Hypsibates leucocephalus leucocephalus Mathews, Nov. Zool,, Vol. XVIII., p. 219, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Austraha, 
Adult male. Differs from Hypsibates leucocephalus assimilis in being larger. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Differs from the adult in being brownish-black above, the crown of the head' 
greyish-brown and the back of the neck grey. 
Nest. “ A bare shallow hollow in the earth ” (Mellor). “ A slight structure consisting 
merely of a few short pieces of rushes and grass placed in and around a depression 
at the foot of a clump of rushes growing near the water’s edge ” (Ramsay).. 
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