5. DEFILIPPIA. 127 



id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 994, pi. xxxiii. (1873 : Sobat R.; 



Gazelle R. ; Lower Kir R., from 10°-7° N. lat.) ; Fischer, J.f. 0. 



1885, p. 110 (Tschara ; Nguruman). 

 Defilippia crassirostris, Salvad. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 373 



(1805). 

 Vanellus crassirostris, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. GO (1805 : 



White Nile) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 214 (1888, pt). 

 Chettusia nivifrons, Ogden, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1871, p. 196, 



pi. 1. 

 Limnetes crassirostris, Fischer, J. f. 0. 1879, p. 290 (W apokomo- 



laud) ; id. Sf Tteichen. t. c. p. 337 (Tschara) ; id. Zeitsehr. yes. Orn. 



i. p. 393 (1885 : Masai-land, breeding) ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, 



p. 47 (Kagehi; E. from Victoria Nyanza) ; id. J.f. 0. 1892, p. 7 



(Murchison Bay, Victoria Xyanza). 



Adult. Similar to D. leucoptera, described in full below, but 

 differing in tbe less extent of tbe black on the hind-neck, and in 

 the quills being almost entirely black, the secondaries having a 

 little white at the extreme base : " basal half of bill violet flesh- 

 colour, the apical half black ; naked orbital skin coral-red ; feet 

 scarlet, the scutes marked with violet-black; soles of feet vermilion ; 

 iris scarlet" (Heuglin). Total length 11-5 inches, culmeu 1-3, 

 wing 8'2, tail 3-7, tarsus 2-85. 



Hub. N.E. Africa, from the Upper "White Nile to the Victoria 

 Nyanza and east to Witu. 



a. Ad. sk. Equatorial Africa. Purchased. 



2. Defilippia leucoptera*. (Plate VII. fig. 1 .) 



Chettusia crassirostris {nee De Fil.), Kirk, Ibis, 1804, p. 331 (River 



Shirfi). 

 Limnetes crassirostris (nee De Fil.), Finseh $• Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. 



p. 041 (1870) ; Bohm, J. f. 0. 1882, p. 184 (Kakoma, in Ugalla) ; 



Matschie, J. f. 0. 1887, p*. 144 (Upaniba Lake). 

 Hoplopterus crassirostris (nee De Fil.), Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 106 



(S. Luci 13aya). 

 Lobivanellus albiceps (nee Goirfd), Holttb <§• Von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. 



Siidafr. p. 240 (1882 : Zambesi ; Albert Land) ; Sharpe, ed. 



Layard 's B. S. Afr. pp. 007, 855 (18S4) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 96 



(Tschiromo ; Upper Shir6). 

 Defilippia crassirostris (nee I)e Fil.), Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 



p. 069 (1884 : S. Lucia Bay). 

 • Vanellus leucopterus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 265 (Quilimane) ; 



id. JB. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. p. (1893) ; id. Voy. Ueutsch. Ost-Afr. 



p. 30 (1894). 

 Hemiparra crassirostris, Uartert, Kat. Voy els. Senchenb. Mus. 



p. 215 (1891: Senaar). 



* Dr. Reichenow has pointed out to me that my D. burrowsii is the same as 

 his Vanellus leucopterus from Quilimane. He writes to me that the Berlin 

 Museum contains a specimen from Kakoma in Ugalla, collected by the late 

 Dr. R. Buhm, which he considers to be a young bird of D. leucoptera and not of 

 D. crassirostris. It has the white primaries and secondaries varied with black 

 markings, which would apparently disappear and leave the whole of these 

 quills white. Dr. Reiehenow considers it probable that all specimens obtained 

 south of the Pangani and the southern end of the Victoria Nyanza will be found 

 to belong to I). leucoptera. 



