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RECURVIKOSTRIDJE. 
Himantopus leucocephalus assimilis (Mathews). 
Hypsibates leucocephalus assimilis Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 2L9, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. 
(Fig. Math. pi. 141.) 
Distr .—Northern Australia. 
Himantopus leucocephalus albus Eliman. 
Himantopus albus Ellman, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7470: New Zealand. 
(Fig. Puller, 2nd ed. pL 27.) 
Himantopus picatus, id. ib.: New Zealand. 
Distr. — New Zealand. 
Himantopus leucocephalus timorensis Math. 
Himantopus leucocephalus timorensis Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. iii. 
p. 150, 1913: East Timor. 
Distr. —Timor to Celebes. 
Himantopus novsezealandise Gould. (24-323.) 
Himantopus novcezealandice Gould, Birds Austr. pt. iv. (vol. vi. 
pi. 25), Sept. 1st, 1841 : Port Nicholson, North Island, New Zea¬ 
land. (Fig. Duller, 2nd ed. pi. 27; Gould, vi. pi. 25.) 
Himantopus melas Hombron et Jacquinot, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, 2nd ser. 
vol. xvi. p. 320, after Nov. 1841 : Otago, South Island, New Zealand. 
Himantopus spicatus Potts, Trans. New Zealand Inst. vol. v. p. 198, May 1873 : 
Sehvyn, South Island, New Zealand. 
Distr .—New Zealand. 
Himantopus knudseni Stejn. (24-323.) 
Himantopus knudseni Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. x. p. 81, 
pi. vi. tig. 2, 1887: Kauai Island. (Fig. Av. Lays.pl. 77.) 
Distr. —Haw a i ian I si a n d s. 
Genus CLADORHYNCHUS Gray. 
Cladorhynchus Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed. p. 69, 1810. Type 
(by original designation): Himantopus palma/us Gould =llecurvi- 
rostra leucocephala Vieillot. 
Recurvirostm Boie, Inis, 1826, Heft x. col. 979, Oct. Typo (by monotypy): 
R. oriental}* Cuvier = /?. leucocephala Vieillot. Not of Linn A Syst Nat 
10th ed. p. 151, Jan. 1st, 1758. 
Leptorhynchus Du Bus, I/Institnt, vol. iii. No. 103, p. 138, April 29th, 1835. 
Type (by monotypy): /.. pectoralis Du Bus — R.Uncocephala Vieillot. Not 
of Gttdrm, Voy. ‘Coquille,’ Zool. vol. ii. p. 110, 1831. 
Xiphidiorhynchus Keichenbach. Vogel Neuholl. pt. i. p. 28, Easter 1845. Typo 
(by monotypy): R. leucocephala Vieillot. 
Tim eta Gistcl, Naturg. Thierr. Sehul. p. ix (pref. Easter, 1847), 1848 ; new 
name for Leptorhynchus Du Bus. 
