. A dictionary of birds . dus, but Australia possesses a distinct species, H. leucocephalusor novai-hollandise, which also occurs in New Zealand, though thatcountry has in addition a species peculiar to it, H. novx-zelandim ormelas, diflering from all the rest by assuming in the breeding-seasonwholly black plumage, to say nothing of a possible third species, theH. albicollis of Sir W. Buller. Australia, however, presents anotherform, which is the type of the genus Cladorhynchus, and differs fromEimantopus both in its style of plumage (the male having a broadbay pectoral belt), in its shorter t
. A dictionary of birds . dus, but Australia possesses a distinct species, H. leucocephalusor novai-hollandise, which also occurs in New Zealand, though thatcountry has in addition a species peculiar to it, H. novx-zelandim ormelas, diflering from all the rest by assuming in the breeding-seasonwholly black plumage, to say nothing of a possible third species, theH. albicollis of Sir W. Buller. Australia, however, presents anotherform, which is the type of the genus Cladorhynchus, and differs fromEimantopus both in its style of plumage (the male having a broadbay pectoral belt), in its shorter tarsi and in having the toes(though, as in the Stilts feet, three in number on each foot)webbed as in the Avosets. STINK-BIRD, a name given to the HoACTZiN (p. 421): STINK-POT, STINKER, sailors names for some of the Petrels (p. 710). 1 Sibbald was unfortunate in his drauglitsman, who gave the bird a hind-toe. 2 This species was made known to Ray by Sloane, who met with it inJamaica, where in his day it was called S TINT—STOCK-DO VE 915 STINT (akin to Stunt), a, common name for any of the smallerSandpipers (p. 812), but especially for the Dunlin (p. 172). ByBritish authors it is almost restricted to Tringa minufa and , both of which occur yearly on our coasts.^ STITCH-BIRD, one of the most interesting of the Meliphagidai(Honey-eater, p. 428) of New Zealand, so called from uttering asharp clicking sound like the striking of two quartz stones together,which has a fanciful resem-blance to the word stitch, thePogonorniscinda of male is remarkable forthe tuft of white feathers stand-ing out behind each eye incontrast with his glossy blackhead and neck, to which suc-ceeds a band of deep yellow, Pogonoenis. (After Buller.) narrow in front but broadening at the sides, while the samecolour is shewn in some of the wing-feathers ; but for the mostpart the rest of the plumage is olive-brown variegated with darkstreaks and a white patch on the cubitals.
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