Order CHARADBIIFORMES 
No. 220. 
Family BURHINIDM. 
BURHINUS MAGNIROSTRIS BROOMEI. 
WESTERN STONE-PLOVER. 
Burhintts MAGNIROSTRIS BROOMEI Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 226, 1912; 
South-west Australia. 
(Edicnemus grallarius (not Latham) Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1874, p. 459. 
Burhinus grallarius Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1910, p. 178 ; Carter, id,, p. 657. 
Burhinus magnirostris hroomei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 226, 1912 ; id.. 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 55, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 75, 1913. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. 
Adult male. Differs from the adult of B. m. magnirostris in being smaller, especially in 
the tarsus ; wing 272, culmen 44, tarsus 115. 
Adult female. Similar to the male but smaller. 
Immature seem to go through the same changes as do those of the typical form. 
Nest. None made. '' 
Eggs. Clutch, two ; ground-colour buff, with wide streaks of very dark brown all over ; 
axis 53 mm., diameter 41. 
Breeding-season. September and October. 
Mr. Tom Carter sends me the following : “ About Broome Hill they are 
fairly numerous in the prevailing open forest country, usually lying concealed 
in the daytime in the shelter of some tangle of fallen boughs, or large bunches 
of rushes. October 8, 1907, I saw a young bird about a fortnight old. 
November 3, 1907, while driving along a bush road, my buggy wheel narrowly 
missed passing over two eggs that were laid on the bare ground within six 
feet of the wheel-tracks along the road. One of the parent birds ran away 
from the eggs when the buggy was almost upon it, and the male appeared a few 
yards distant. The chicks were just chipping from the eggs. October 20, 
1907, I noted two fresh eggs. 
“ When disturbed in the daytime, one or both birds of a pair will some- 
times run a short distance, and then stand motionless in a rigid position, 
with head and neck outstretched forward, and the whole bodj'^ in an elongated 
form. When so standing, they could easily be mistaken and passed by, as 
being old stumps of small trees.” 
The bird described is the type collected at Broome HiU, South-west 
Australia, on October 2nd, 1907, by Mr. Tom Carter. 
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