Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 
No. 215. 
Family OLAREOLIDM. 
PELTOHYAS AUSTRALIS AUSTRALIS. 
EASTERN DOTTEREL. 
Eudromius australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 174, 1841 ; South 
Australia. 
Eudromius australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 174, 1841. 
Eudromias australis id., Birds Austr,, Vol. VI., pi. 15, 1843 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. 
Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 49, 1849 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 227, 
1865; Biggies, Comp. Gould’s Handb., Vol. II., pi. 97, 1877; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; id., Vol. VII., p. 410, 1883 ; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 19, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, pp. 303, 395, 1889- 
1890 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 970, 1892 ; Campbell, ib., 
Vol, V., p. 431, 1893 ; Heartland, Rep. Horn Sci. Exp., Zool., pt. n., p. 110, 1896. 
CTiaradrius australis Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., App., p. 25, 1849 ; Seebohm, Geogr. 
Bistrib. Charadr,, p. 110, 1887. 
Morinellus australis Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 417, 1856. 
Peltohyas australis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 307, 1896 ; Hall, Eey 
Birds Austr., p. 83, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 798, 1901 ; 
Berney, Emu, Vol. II., p. 212, 1903 ; id., ib., Vol. IV., p. 47, 1904 ; Hall, Eey 
Birds Austr., p. 83, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 112, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 25, 1908. 
Charadrius australis australis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 218, 1912. 
Peltohyas australis australis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 75, 1913. 
Bistribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. 
Adult differs from the adult of Peltohyas australis whitlocki in being smaller and paler. 
Nest. A depression in the soil. ' 
Eggs. “ Clutch three to five. Ground colour is of a rich cream or buff, sparingly 
sprinkled all over with irregular spots and some elongated crooked markings 
of chocolate black with a few minute dots and dashes of a lighter tint : the 
markings look black in certain lights, but of a chocolate tint in others. Axis 
37 mm. ; diameter 27.” (Ramsay.) 
Breeding-months. April, May, September, and October (Bennett) ; August (Campbell). 
Mr. J. W. Mellor, writing from South. Australia, says : “I was pleased to 
meet this interior bird out in the wilds of the Never-never, and in country 
that harmonised with its general coloration, the ground generally being of 
a buliy-reddish clay nature, or reddish sand, and the stones and pebbles about 
which the birds ran were of the same uniform color, and even the stunted 
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