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vermiculated with blackish ; the quills and tail as in the male ; a broad 

 blackish-brown pectoral band, followed by a white band and then a 

 broken blackish-brown band ; the remaining underparts white. 



Family CHARADRIIDAE 



MICROSARCOPS CINEREUS (Blyth) 



Gray-headed Lapwing 



Pluvianus cinereus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, 1842, p. 587 (Cal- 

 cutta, Bengal). 



Microsarcops cinereus, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 171 

 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 82 (Chiang Mai). 



This migratory lapwing occurs fairly commonly in the neighbor- 

 hood of Chiang Mai from September 8 (1930) to March 14 (1930) , and 

 I have seen it at Ban Nong Khiat in November, but otherwise, curiously 

 enough, it has been overlooked in the northern provinces. 



The present species is found in flocks of 6 to 10 birds at moist places 

 in the ricefields after harvest and on the drying marshes, often ac- 

 companied by the next form, which it closely resembles in habits. 



A female specimen had the irides deep red, more orange next to the 

 pupil ; the edges of the eyelids and the bare skin in front of the eye 

 bright yellow ; the wattles bright yellow ; the bill bright deep yellow 

 with the terminal third black ; the feet, toes, and soles bright yellow ; 

 the claws black. 



The adult has the head, neck, and breast brownish ashy, the last 

 delimited by a blackish-brown pectoral band ; the back, scapulars, and 

 upper wing coverts light brown ; the upper tail coverts and tail white, 

 the last with a broad, black subterminal band ; the outspread wing with 

 the apical half black, the basal half white ; the remaining underparts 

 white. 



LOBIVANELLUS INDICUS ATRONUCHALIS Jerdon 



Burmese Red-wattled Lapwing 



L[oUvanellus] atronuclialis "Blyth" Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. 3, 1864, p. 648 

 (Burma). 



Sarcogrammus atrinuclialis, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, 

 p. 235 (listed). 



Sarcogrammus indica atrinuchalis, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 

 Handl., 1916, p. 142 (Khun Tan). 



Sarcogrammus indicus atronuclialis, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 755 ("Through- 

 out the whole country"). 



Lobivanellus i?idicns atrinuchalis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia 1929, p. 584 (Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen). 



Lobivanellus indicus atronuclialis, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1931, p. 171 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 82 (Chiang Mai). 



This is one of our most familiar birds, occurring in suitable terri- 

 tory throughout the northern provinces. Eisenhofer sent to Stock- 



