BIRDS OF THE AUSTRALASIAN SOUTH POLAR QUADRANT. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, eye-ring, sides of face, lores and base of fore-head black like 
the band across the fore-neck, which extends round the hind-neck where it becomes 
narrower ; hinder crown, nape, back, wings and tail sepia-brown; scapulars also sepia- 
brown, margined with white on the outer webs ; outer edge of wing white ; bastard 
wing, primary-coverts and flight-quills dark brown, inclining to black towards the tips 
of the primaries ; tips of the greater upper wing-coverts white like some of the secondary- 
quills, the sub-apical portion of the shafts of the primaries white like a portion of the outer 
webs on some of the feathers ; base of tail like the back, becoming blackish towards the 
tip, the outer feathers tipped with white which increases in extent towards the outer¬ 
most which is entirely white; sides of crown, a band across the fore-head and a band on 
the hind-neck white like the breast, abdomen, thighs, sides of body, under tail-coverts, 
axillaries and under wing-coverts ; margin of wing below spotted with pale brown ; under¬ 
surface of flight-quills silvery-grey, becoming darker towards the tips ; lower aspect of 
tail similar to its upper-surface. Total length 184 mm. : culmen 18, wing 131, tail 60, 
tarsus 25. Figured. Collected at Long Bay, New 7 South Wales, on the 30th of August, 
1908. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Chick. Above sandy brownish-grey, with blackish spots to the tips of the down feathers ; 
head a little lighter than the back, with a blackish-brown stripe down the middle of the 
feathers ; a narrow 7 blackish band encircles the head reaching as far as the eye, followed 
by a wider white one which joins the white throat, which is continuous with the wholly 
white under-surface; fore-head white ; base of bill yellow, remainder blackish-brown. 
Next stage : Similar, but more uniform above, of a lightish-brown mottled slightly with 
sandy-whitish spots ; sides of the breast with a large brownish patch, which forms an 
almost complete band ; throat more greyish than in the above stage ; remainder of under¬ 
surface white. In the next stage the bird is very similar, but the feathers of the upper- 
surface are fringed with sandy, and in the next stage the sandy edges of the feathers on 
the back and head are whitish and the blackish band below the white nape band is 
distinct as in the adult. 
Nest. Just a depression in the sand or soil. 
Eggs. Clutch four, pyriform in shape; ground-colour stone. Marked all over fairly evenly, 
but sometimes more at the larger end, with varying ringed markings or spots of blackish- 
brown with underlying ones of lavender. 33-38 by 24-26 mm. 
Breeding-season. April, May (Europe). 
This bird has been recorded for Australia and the above description is 
taken from the Australian shot example. As there is no original collector’s 
label on the skin, I am just describing the bird and giving the synonymy. 
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