. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . that they are barren, and that therefore the two species may beregarded as specifically distinct. It appears, however, completely to intergrade with theAfrican Black Oystercatcher. Synonymy. Literature. Hsematopus unicolor, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1230. Hsematopus fuliginosus, Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 8 (1848). Hsematopus ophthalmicus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sac. N. S. Wales, i. p. 385 (1877). Plates.—Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 8 ; Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror,
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . that they are barren, and that therefore the two species may beregarded as specifically distinct. It appears, however, completely to intergrade with theAfrican Black Oystercatcher. Synonymy. Literature. Hsematopus unicolor, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1230. Hsematopus fuliginosus, Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 8 (1848). Hsematopus ophthalmicus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sac. N. S. Wales, i. p. 385 (1877). Plates.—Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 8 ; Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, pi. —Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 217. Eggs.—Buller, Birds New Zealand, p. 225; Campbell, Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,p. 52. 1LEMAT0PTJS. 309 The Australian Black Oystercatcher resembles its American cousin in having the Specificwhole of its plumage black; but the basal half of the bill is slightly more elongated, and characters,the colour of the legs and feet is brick-red, instead of pale flesh-colour. It is a residentthroughout the coasts of New Zealand, Australia, and H^MATOPUS UNIC0L0R CAPENSIS. AFRICAN BLACK OYSTERCATCHER. HjEMatoptjs unicolor rostro breviore : pedum rubro colore potiiis purpurascente quam miniato. Diagnosis. It is often very difficult to distinguish some examples of the African form of this species Variationsfrom the Australian. Hcematopus capensis, Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. p. 73 (1823).Haematopus moquini, Bonap. fide Hartlaub, Orn. Westafr. p. 218 (1857). Plates.—Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. pi. cxlvi. Habits.—Sharpe, Layards Birds of South Africa, p. 672. Eggs.—Andersson, Birds of Damara-Land, p. 277. Synonymy. Literature. The African Black Oystercatcher is so closely allied to its Australian representative Subspeeificthat many ornithologists do not discriminate between them. It may, however, be recognized ° aracters-by its shorter bill, the basal half of which is not exceptionally elongated, and by the col
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