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BURIIINIDJ5. 
Family BURHIN1D/E. 
Genus BURHINUS Illiger. 
J Burhinus, llliger, Prodr. Mamm. et Av. p. 250 (pref. April), 1811. 
Type (by monotypy) : Charadrius magnirostris Latham. 
Planorhamphus Billberg, Synops. Faumo Scand. vol. i. pt. ii., Aves, tab. A, 
1828 : new name for u Burrhinns Ill.” 
Burhinus magnirostris (Latham). 
Distr. — Australia and Tasmania. 
Burhinus magnirostris magnirostris (Latham). (24-18.) 
Charadrius magnirostris Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. Ixvi, after 
May, 1801: New South Wales (based on Watling drawing). 
(Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 5; Math. pi. 178.) 
Charadrius grallarius Latham, Index Omitli., Suppl. p. Ixvi, after May, 1801 : 
New South Wales. 
Charadrius frmnatus Latham, ib. p. lxvii: New South Wales. 
(Edicnemus longipes Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xxiii. p. 232, 
Sept. 5th, 1818: New South Wales. 
Burkinas nowehollandim Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 342, 1826 
(end): new name for magnirostris, 
Charadrius giganteus Waglcr, Isis, June 1829, coL 647 : New South Wales. 
(Edicnemus major Brehm, Isis, May 1845, col. 357 : New South Wales. 
(Edicnemus australis Mathews & Iredale, Man. Birds Austr. p. 116, March 9th, 
1921 : as synonym of magnirostris (ex Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 212, n. n.). 
Charadrius loratus Latham MS. for same as fnenatns Latham. 
Charadrius grallalor Latham MS. for same as grallarius Latham. 
Distr . —South Queen.-land to South Australia and Tasmania. 
Burhinus magnirostris rufescens Mathews. 
Burhinus magnirostris rufescens Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 225,-1912 : Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. 
Distr. —North-West Australia and Northern Territory. 
Burhinus magnirostris rams ay i Mathews. 
Burhinus magnirostris ramsayi Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 225, Jan. 31st, 1912: Mackay, Queensland. 
(Edicnemus longipes Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 35, before Dec. 1888 : 
Gulf of Carpentaria. Not Vieillot, 1818, as abovo. 
Distr. —North Queensland. 
Burhinus magnirostris broomei Mathews. 
Burhinus magnirostris hroomei Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p.225, 
Jan. 31st, 1912, p. 226: Broome Hill, South-West Australia. 
Distr .— South-West Australia. 
Genus ORTHORHAMPHUS Salvador!. 
Orthorhamphus Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vol. v. p. 312, 
1874. Type (by monotypy) : CEdicnemus magnirostris Vieillot. 
