Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 Family BVRHINIDM, 
No. 218. 
BUEHINUS MAGNIROSTRIS RUFESCENS. 
LITTLE STONE-PLOYER. 
Buehinxjs magnibostris RUFESCENS Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 226, 1912 ; 
North-west Australia. 
(Edicnemus grallarius Keartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 185, 
1898. 
Burhinus grallarius (not Latham) Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 174, 1904 ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XII., p. 202, 1905 ; Ingram, Ibis 1907, p. 394 ; HaU and Rogers, Emu, 
Vol. VTI., p. 141, 1908 ; Mathews, ih., Vol. IX., p. 56, 1909 ; id,, ib., Vol. X., 
p. 104, 1910. 
Burhinus rmgnirostris rufescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 225, 1912; id., 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 55, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 76, 1913. 
Distribution. Mid- and North-west Australia ; Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Differs from the adult of B. m. magnirostris in being reddish on the back, 
and in being smaller ; wing 280 mm., culmen 61, tarsus 125. 
Adult female. Very similar to the adult male but smaller. 
Immature seem to go through the same changes as those of the typical form. 
Nest. A depression. 
Eggs. Clutch, two ; ground-colour stone, blotched with dark brown, more especially on 
the larger end ; axis 53 mm., diameter 39. \ 
Breeding-season. September and October. 
Mb. J. P. Rogers, writing from North-west Australia, says : “In the day 
they gather in small flocks of nine or ten, and spend the day under a bush 
on the edge of the plains. Some were collected at Mungi.” Mr. Rogers 
also found a nest of this species on October I8th, 1908, under a “gutta- 
percha ” tree on the edge of the salt-marsh at the “ 9 mile ” ridge, near 
Wyndham, North-west Australia. It contained two eggs, which were placed 
in a slight depression (measuring 9 by 9 in.) amongst some horse-droppings. 
The eggs were placed exactly parallel to each other and were IJ in. apart.' 
The small ends of the eggs were pointing the same way. They were also 
fairly numerous on Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
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