CLADOIUIYNCIIUS. 
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Specimens taken by M. H. Bennett during October 1886, 
at Ivanhoe, New South Wales, measure as follows :—length (A) 
1-72 x 1*3 inch; (B) 1-75 x 1-34 inch; (C) 1-73x 1-31 inch; (D) 
1-78 x 1-35 inch. 
Ilab. Derby, NYW. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South- 
West Australia, South Coast of New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
Genus CLADORHYNCHUS, G. E. Gray. 
CLADORHYNCHUS PECTORALIS, Dubus, 
Banded Stilt. 
Gould, ILandbJc. Eds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 518, p. 248. 
“ The eggs are four in number for a sitting placed in a scanty 
nest of a few dry reeds and water grassos ; the ground colour 
varies from an olive-brown to creamy-brown irregularly spotted 
and blotched with black, in shape oval but slightly pointed. 
Length (A) 1-9 x 1'4 inch; (B) 1'88 x 13 inch.” {Ramsay, P.L.S., 
N.8.W., Vol. vii., p. 57.) 
Ilab. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, West 
and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
Family SCOLOPACID^I. 
Genus RHYN CIIZEA, Cuvier. 
RIIYNCIIYEA AUSTRALIS, Gould. 
Australian Rliynclisea. 
Gould, Handbk., Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 534, p. 274. 
The eggs of this bird have several times been erroneously 
described as those of Gallinago australis, but recently on receipt 
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