CHARADRIIDJE.-RECURYIROSTRIP^E. 
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Elseya Mathews, Birds Anstr. vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 125, May 2nd, 1913. Type (by 
original designation): Charadrius melanops Vieillot. Not Elseya Grandidier, 
Rev. do Zool. p. 232, 1867. 
Elseyornis melanops (Vieillot). 
Distr .—Australia and Tasmania. 
Elseyornis melanops melanops (Vieillot). (24-300.) 
Charadrius melanops Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxvif. 
p. 139, Dee. 26th, 1818: “ aux Torres Australes Baud in Exp.”= 
New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 20; Math. pi. 140.) 
Charadrius nigrifrons Temminck et Laugicr, Planeh. Color. d’Ois, 8e livr. vol. i. 
pi. 47, March 1821: New South Wales, ex Cuvier MS. 
Distr .— Southern Australia. 
Elseyornis melanops russatus (Jerdon). 
Charadrius russatus Jerdon, Madras Jo urn. Lit. Sci. vol. xii, p. 213, 
Oct. 1840: Madras, India. 
Charadrius melanops marngli Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 218, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Marngle Creek, North-West Australia. 
Distr .—Northern Australia. Accidental to India. 
Family RECURVIROSTRIDjE. 
Genus HIMANTOPUS Brisson. 
Himantopus Brisson, Ornith. vol. i. p. 46, vol. v. p. 33, 1760. Type 
(by tau tony ray) : Himantopus = Charadrius himantopus Linne. 
Macrotarsus Lacepedc, Tabl. Ois. p. 18, Dec. 1799. Species added by Daudin, 
in Hist. Nat. BuiTon, ed. Didot, Quadr. vol. xiv. p. 336 [1799—] Oct. 1802. 
Typo (by monotypy): C. himantopus Linn6. Not of Link, Beytr. Nat. i. (2) 
pp. 51, 65, 1795. 
Ilypsibates Nitzsch, in Ersch und Gruber’s Ency.,Sect. i. vol. xvi. p. 150, 1827 : 
new name for Himantopus Bonnatorre — Brisson. 
Calobatus Lesson, Mannel d’Orn. vol. ii. p. 339, June 1828. New name for 
Himantopus Brisson. Type (by monotypy): Charadrius himantopus Linne. 
Himantellus “ Ralinq. 1815,’ Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 117, Oct. 1855. 
In synonymy of Himantopus Brisson. 
Himantopus leucocephalus Gould. 
Distr. —Australia, Celebes, and New Zealand. 
Himantopus leucocephalus leucocephalus Gould. (24-317.) 
Himantopus leucocephalus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. ii. pi. 34, 
April 1837: New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 24.) 
Himantopus novmhollandim Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. voL xliii. p. 421, Sept. 1st, 
1856: new name for leucocephalus. 
Himantopus seebohmi Hartert, Katal. Vogels. Mus. Scnck. p. 220, mid-Jan., 
1891: new name for leucocephalus. 
Dist r. — Southern A astral ia. 
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