Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 25

The Masked Plover

This Extraordinary looking Bird resorts in Swampy flats and on the sides of Creeks and Rivers and has received the General appellation of Plover, to which I have added Masked from the singular yellow Skin, or Membranous substance, which covers the fore part of the Head, and which it rises and lays flat at pleasure; it also possesses a Remarkable Horn or Claw on either wing, which I imagine is its Weapon of defenece; tho it possesses no similarity whatever in its appearance to the Plover of England, yet its Habits are somewhat the same.

Native Names

Kidgiri Kidgiri
Bundarandange