Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 221. 
Family BURHINIDM 
ORTHORHAMPHUS MAGNIROSTRIS NEGLECTUS. 
AUSTRALIAN LONG-BILLED PLOYER. 
(Plate 174.)* 
Esactjs MAGNmosTKis NEGLECTUS Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 226, 1912 ; 
Lewis Island, North-west Australia. 
Esacus magnirostris (not VieiUot) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pi. 6, 1845 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 213, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 335 ; 
id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 196, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 19, 1888 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 979, 1892 ; Campbell, 
ih., Vol. V., p. 425, 1893 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 202, 1905. 
OrthorhampJius magnirostris (pars) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 22, 
1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 79, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
p. 768, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 175, 1904 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., 
2nd ed., p. 79, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 30, 1908 ; Carter, Ibis 
1910, p. 657 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 242, 1910. 
Esacus magnirostris neglectus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 226, 1912 (Lewis 
Island, N.-W. Australia). 
Esacus magnirostris mdvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 85, 1912 (Melville 
Island, Northern Territory). 
Esacus magnirostris queenslandicus Mathews, ib., Vol. II., p. 6, 1913 (Mackay, Queensland). 
Orthorhamphus magnirostris neglectus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 76, 1913. 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory ; North Queensland. 
Adult male. Head, neck aU round, back, and scapulars brown, with dark shaft-lines to 
the feathers of the head and hind-neck ; lesser upper wing-coverts dark brown ; 
median coverts banded with white, which shows a narrow wing-bar, the small 
coverts round the bend of the wing and greater coverts pale grey, outside edge 
of wing white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown ; primary-quills 
also dark brown with white on the inner webs, the outer primary white on the 
outer web towards the tip, the second one mottled only with white, the third, 
fourth, and fifth have no white on the outer web, the sixth, seventh, eighth and 
ninth entirely white except a small patch of brown on the outer web of the sixth 
* The Plate is lettered Esacus magnirostris. 
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