Order CHARADRHFORMES 
No. 219. 
Family BURHINIDM. 
BURHINUS MAGNIROSTRIS RAMSAYI. 
NORTHERN STONE-PLOVER. 
BiTRHmus MAGNIROSTRIS RAMSAYI Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p, 225, 1912 ; 
Queensland. 
(Edicnemus grallarius (not Latham) Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 335. 
(Edicnemus longipes (not Vieillot) id,, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 35, 1889 (Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Queensland). 
Burhinus grallarius Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 110, 1907 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 463. 
Burhinus magnirostris ramsayi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 225, 1912 ; id., 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 55, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 76. 
Distribution. Queensland. 
Adult male. Differs from the adult of B. m. ma-gnirostris in its much longer tarsus ; wing 
290 mm., culmen 46, tarsus 146. 
Adult female. Similar to the male but smaller. 
Imvmture seem to go through the same changes as the typical form. 
Nest. None made. 
Eggs. Clutch, two ; ground-colour buff, blotched, sometimes very heavily, with dark 
brown and light grey ; axis 53-54 mm., diameter 41-42. 
Breeding-season. September and October. 
“ A SCARCE bird in the [Richmond] district [of North Queensland] confining 
its short and irregular visitations to the wettest half of the year, January 
to July. During the past nine years I have only once met with the miscalled 
‘ Curlew ’ during the period July to December. I flushed a single individual 
in August 1899.”* 
The bird described is the type, collected at Mackay, Queensland. 
* Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 110, 1907. 
