LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Elseya Mathews, Birds Austr Vol. HI., pt 2, p. 125, May 2nd, 1913 Type (by original designation) : Charadrius 
melanops Vieillot. 
Not Elseya Grandidier, Rev. de Zool., p. 232, 1867. 
121. ELSEYORNIS MELANOPS. BLACK-FRONTED DOTTEREL. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 20 (pt. xis.), June 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 2, pi. 140, May 2nd, 
1913. 
Charadrius melanops Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 139, Dec. 26th, 1818 : “ aux Terres Aus- 
trales Baudin Exp.” = New South Wales. 
Charadrius nigriirons Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 8e livr. (Vol. I., pi. 47, fig. 1), (Vol. V., pi. 68), 
March 1821, ex Cuvier MS. : Nouvelle Hollande = New South Wales. 
Charadrius russatus Jerdon, Madras Joum. Lit. Sci., Vol. XII., p. 213, Oct. 1840: Madras, India. 
Charadrius melanops mam gli Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 218, Jan. 31st, 191 2 : Mamgle Creek, is orth-west 
Australia 
Distribution Australia generally and Tasmania. 
Family RECURVIROSTRID.E. 
CVII. Genus HIMANTOPUS. 
Hlmantopus Brisson, Ornith., Vol. I., p. 46, Vol. V., p. 33, 1760 : Type (bv tautonymy) : Himantopus = Chara- 
drius himantopus Linne. 
Macrotarsus Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., p. 18, Dec. 1799. Species added by Daudin, in Hist. Nat. Bufion, ed. Didot. 
Quadr., Vol. XIV., p. 336 [1799=] Oct. 1802. Type (by monotypy): C. himantopus Linne. 
Not of Link, Beytr. Nat., I. (2), pp. 51, 65, 1795. 
Hypsibates Nitzsch, in Ersch mid Gruber’s Ency., Sect. I., Vol. XVL., p. 150, 1827. New name for Himantopus 
Bonnaterre = Brisson. 
Calobatus Lesson, Manuel d’Orn., Vol. II., p. 339, June 1828. New name for Himantopus Brisson. Type 
(by monotypy) : Charadrius himantopus Linne. 
Himantellus “ Rafinq. 1815 ” Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 117, Oct. 1855. In synonymy of Himantopus Brisson. 
122. HIMANTOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. WHITE-HEADED STILT. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 24, (pt. iv.), Sept. 1st, 1841. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 2, pi. 141, May 2nd, 
1913. 
Himantopus Ieueocephalus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. ii., pi. 34, April 1837 : New South Wales. 
Himantopus novcehollandice Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XLIII., p. 421, Sept. 1st, 1856. 
New name for Himantopus Ieueocephalus Gould. 
Himantopus seebohmi Hartert, Ratal. Vogels Mus. Senckenb., p. 220, 1891. Mid-January. New name for H. 
Ieueocephalus Gould. 
Hypsibates Ieueocephalus assimilis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 219, Jan. 31st, 1912: Parry’s Creek, 
North-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
CVIII. Genus CL A DOBII YNCH US. 
Cladorhynchus Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed., p. 69, April 1840. Type (by original designation) : Himantopus 
palmatus — Recurvirostra leucocephala Vieillot. 
Recurvirostra Boie, Isis, 1826, heft X., col. 979, Oct. Type (by monotypy) : R. orientalis Cuvier = R. leucocephala 
Vieillot. 
Not of Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 151, Jan. 1st, 1758. 
Leptorhynchus Du Bus, Mag. de Zool., 1835, pi. 45 (dated Aug.). Type (by monotypy) : L. pectoralis Du Bus = 
R. leucocephala Vieillot. 
Not of Guerin, Voy. Coquille, Zool., Vol. II., p. 110, 1831. 
Xiphidiorhynchus Reichenbaeh, Vogel Neuholl., pt. i., pr. 28, 1845. Type (by monotypy) : R. leucocephala 
Vieillot. 
Timeta Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. Scliul., p. IX. (pref. Easter, 1847), 1848. New name for Leptorhynchus Du Bus. 
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