Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 184. 
Family RECURVIR08TRIDM. 
CLADORHYNCHUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. 
BANDED STILT. 
(Plate 142.) 
Recfrvirostra letjcocephala Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. III., p. 103, Sept., 
1816 ; Victoria. 
Recurvirostra leucocephala Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. III., p. 103, 1816. 
Recurvirostra orientalis Cuvier, Le Regne Anim., Vol. I., p. 496, Dec., 1816 (Victoria). 
Leptorhynchus pectoralis Du Bus, Mag. de Zool. 1835, pi. 45 (Victoria). 
Himantopus palnmtus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. 33, 1837 (Victoria). 
CladorTiynchus pectoralis Gray, List Genera Birds, p, 69, 1840 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
Vol. VI., pi. 26, 1841 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 49, 1849 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 248, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 198, 1878 ; id., ib., Vol. VII., p. 57, 1882 ; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 311, 1889 ; Heartland, 
Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 187, 1898. 
Xiphidiorhynchus pectoralis Reichenbach, Vogel NeuhoU., pt. i., p. 28, 1845. 
Cladorhynchus orientalis Selys-Longchamps, BuU. de I’Acad. Roy. Brux., Vol. XVIII., 
pt. I., p. 9, 1851. 
Himantopus pectoralis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. V., Scolopaces, p. 108, 1864 ; Seebohm, 
Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 288, pi. xrv., 1887 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 
Vol. IV., p. 963, 1892 ; Campbell, ih., Vol. V., p. 439, 1893. 
Cladorhynchus leucocephalus Salvin, Ibis 1874, p. 252 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXIV., p. 324, 1896 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 83, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 803, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., p. 223, 1904 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 83, 1906 ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. VI., p. 343, 1907 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 25, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 135, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 180 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 219, 1912. 
Cladorhynchus australis Lawson, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 131, 1905 (n.n.). 
Cladorhynchus leucocephalus rottnesti Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 31, 1912 
(Rottnest Island, South-west Austraha). 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, South-west 
Australia, North-west Australia. 
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