Order CHARADRIIF0BME8 
No. 210. 
Family R08TRATULIDM. 
ROSTRATULA AUSTRALIS. 
AUSTRALIAN PAINTED SNIPE. 
(Plate 168.)* 
RhyncHwEA austr alis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 6, 1838 ; New 
South Wales. 
Rhynchcea australis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 6, 1838 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 155, 1838 ; id.. Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 41, 1842 ; 
Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., App., p. 50, 1849 ; Goidd, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 274, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 339 ; Biggies, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 100, 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. I., p. 190, 1877 ; Wood-Mason, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1878, p. 747 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. I., p. 1060, 1887 ; Seebohm, 
Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 458, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tabl. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 311, 1889 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. 
Sci., Vol. IV., p. 941, 1892 ; Campbell, ih., Vol. V., p. 442, 1893 ; Keartland, 
Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 187, 1898; North, Birds County 
Cumberl., p. 112, 1898. 
Scolopax australis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 57, 1882. 
Rostratula australis Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist,, Vol. IV., p. Ill, 1885 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 690, 1896 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
p. 826, 1901 ; Bryant, Emu, Vol. V., p. 23, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 87, 
1906 ; Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 114, 1907 ; Austin, ib., Vol. VII., p. 77, 1907 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 29, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1909, p. 614 ; 
Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 103, 1910 ; Hall, ib., Vol. X., p. 138, 1910 ; Mathews, 
List Birds Austr., p. 73, 1913. 
Gallinago (Scolopax) australis (not Latham) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. H., 
Vol. I., p. 1060, 1887. 
Rostratula capensis australis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 224, 1912. 
Rostratula australis fitzroyi id.. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 85, 1912 (North-west Australia). 
Distribution. Australia and Tasmania. 
Adult female. Head olive-brown, minutely barred with black and divided in the middle 
by a white line from the base of the bill over the top of the head, a white eye-ring 
which widens out at the back of the eye into a large white spot ; nape and hind- 
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