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SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS CHETTUSIA (LOBIVANELLUS) , WITH A 

 DESCEIPTION or A NEW SPECIES. 



BY J. A. OGDEN. 



The species'belonging to the genus Chettusia are recognized by 

 their moderately strong bill, the culmen somewhat depressed at 

 the base, with the sides compressed and grooved for two-thirds 

 their length ; nostrils lateral, basal, with the opening linear ; 

 wings long, with the first, second, and third quills nearly equal 

 and longest ; the shoulder of the wing more or less armed with a 

 tubercle or spine ; tail broad and even ; tarsi moderately long, 

 exceeding the length of the middle toe; toes four; head not 

 crested, and sometimes more or less lobed. 



a. Species with wattles well developed ; tubercle upon the wing 

 prolonged into a spur, or spine ; hind toe short. 



1. C. senegalla (Linn.)- 



Parra senegalla., Linn., Syst. Nat. I., p. 259. 



Vanellus albkajnlla, YieWl, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXV., p. 205. 



Vanellus sejiegalensis, Sliaw, Gen. Zool. XI., 2, 515. 



Vanelhts strigilatus, Swains., B. of W. Afr. II., p. 241, pi. 27. 



Vanellus albifrons, Kiipp., PI. enl. N. 362; Eeicli., pi. C. figs. 682-83. 



Hab. Western Africa (tSwainson). 



(Collection of the Academy.) 



2. C. macropterus (Cuv.). 



V. macropterus, Cuv., In Mus. Paris. 



Cli. cucullatus, Temm., PI. col. 505. 



F. tricolor, Hors., Linn. Trans. XIII. , p. 186. 



Lob. tricolor, Strick. 



Hab. " Indian Archipelago." 



(Collection of the Academy.) 



3. C. lobata (Lath.). 



Tringa lobata, Lath., Ind. Orn. Supp. p. 65. 



V. galUnaceus, Temm., Jard & Selby, 111., Orn. vol. III., pi. 84. 



V. Novcc-Hollandw, Stepp., Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. XL, p. 516. 



V. lobatus, Vieill., Ency. Meth. Orn., pt. III., p. 1075. 



Ch. lobatus, Wagl., Syst. Av., sp. 51. 



Lob. lobatus, Gould., B. of Aust. fol., vol. VI., pi. 9. 



Hab. New South Wales (Gould). 



(Collection of the Academy.) 

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