. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 152 CHARADRIUS FRONTALIS. WBY-BILLED PLOVER. Diagnosis. Charadeius rostro dextrorse curvato. Synonymy. Literature. Variations. The alleged variations of this species are supposed to be myths. AnarhyDchus frontalisj Q%oy if Gaimard, Voy. Astrol., Zool. i. p. 252 (1833). Thinornis frontalis {Quoy §• Gaim.), Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 545 (1848). Anarhynchus altifrons, ScMegel, Handleid. i. p. 435 (1857). Charadrius frontalis {Quoy ^ Gaim.), Gray, Ibis,
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 152 CHARADRIUS FRONTALIS. WBY-BILLED PLOVER. Diagnosis. Charadeius rostro dextrorse curvato. Synonymy. Literature. Variations. The alleged variations of this species are supposed to be myths. AnarhyDchus frontalisj Q%oy if Gaimard, Voy. Astrol., Zool. i. p. 252 (1833). Thinornis frontalis {Quoy §• Gaim.), Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 545 (1848). Anarhynchus altifrons, ScMegel, Handleid. i. p. 435 (1857). Charadrius frontalis {Quoy ^ Gaim.), Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 234. Hffimatopus frontalis {Quoy ^ Gaim.), Finsch, Journ. Orn. 1867, p. 346. Plates.—Harting, Ibis, 1869, pi. viii. Habits.—BuUer, Birds of New Zealand, p. 216\ Eggs.—Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pi. Ix. fig. 11. * The account of the Wry-biUed Plover is full of blunders and omissions. Gray's misstatement that the wry bill was accidental is corrected (it is quite perceptible in the young in down, Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 673); but a story that the pectoral band is broader on the right than on the left side of the breaSt is attempted to be explained by the laws of protective selection! The fact that the male has a black band over the white forehead is not mentioned, nor does it appear to have occurred to the writer that there may or may not be any difference between summer and winter plumage. The black pectoral band is said to be duller in the female than in the male, an assertion contradicted by sexed skins from Haast, Wilson Saunders, &o. in my collection. Young are said to have no pectoral band, but in a young bird in my collection the pectoral band is represented by a grey patch on each side of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1
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