128 CHAEADEIID^:. 



Vanellus crassirostris (nee De Fil), Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 474. 

 Defilippia burrowsii, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. no. xx. p. iv (Oct. 1894). 

 Defilippia leucoptera, Shaiye, Bull. B. 0. C. no. xxi. {p. vii (Nov. 

 1894). 



Adult. General colour above light ashy brown, greyer on the 

 scapulars ; lower back darker brown, succeeded by a black band 

 across the rump ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white ; tail- 

 feathers glossy black, white at the extreme base ; wing-coverts 

 entirely white, as also the quills, excepting the three outer primaries, 

 which are black, and the inner secondaries, which are brown, with a 

 slight gloss of metallic green ; forehead and fore part of crown, eye- 

 brow, entire sides of face, and ear-coverts white, like the throat ; the 

 middle of the crown, nape, and hind-neck glossy blue-black, united to 

 a broad pectoral band which occupies the fore-neck and entire upper 

 breast ; remainder of under surface of body, including the under tail- 

 coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries, pure white : " feet rosy 

 violet, with the large scales of the tarsus blackish ; base of bill violet, 

 the end black ; eyelid bright carmine ; iris scarlet '" (B. Bohm). Total 

 length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 7"9, tail 3-7, tarsus 3-1. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa, from S. Lucia Bay to the Zambesi, 

 and north to the Ugalla Country, and perhaps to the Pangani. 



a. Ad. sk. Lower Shire" Valley (Sir J. Livingstone Expedition. 



Kirk). 



b. Ad. sk. Elephant Marsh, Shire" Livingstone Expedition. 



Valley, Jan. (Sir J. Kirk). 



c. d. Ad. sk. Upper Shire River, Nov. H. H. Johnston, Esq.. 



(A. Whyte). C.B. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Tschiromo, Sept. (A. Mliyte). H. H. Johnston, Esq., 



C.B. [C.]. 

 /. J ad.; g-h. Lake Shirwa, May, June H. H. Johnston, Esq., 

 2 ad. sk. (A. Whyte). C.B. [C.]. (Types of 



D. burroiosii.) 



6. SARCIOPHORUS. 



Type. 

 Sarciophorus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 32 S. tectus. 



Range. Africa, from Senegambia to N.E. Africa, south to Equa- 

 torial Africa ; Somali-land and the Teita district in Eastern Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. White frontal band narrow tectus, p. 128. 



b. White frontal band broad latifrons, p. 130. 



1. Sarciophorus tectus. 



Pluvier du Se"ne"gal, D'Aubenton, PL Enl. ix. pi. 834. 



Le Pluvier coiffe, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 100 (1781). 



Charadrius tectus, Bodcl. Tabl. PI. Enl, p. 51 (1783). 



Hooded Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 215 (1785). 



Charadrius pileatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 691 (1788) ; Wagl. Syst. 



Av., Charadrius, sp. 6, p. 57 (1827). 

 Sarciophorus pileatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33; Gray, List 



Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 66 (1844 : Abyssinia) ; BMpp. Syst. Uebers. 



