138 rjJARADRIID^. 



d, e. <$ ad. sk. Maravnioc, Ecuador, Mav Warsaw Museum 



(Jelski). [E.]. 



/. Ad. ak. Peru. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ff, h. J 2 ad. sk. Tinta, Peru, Mav, June Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



(H. Whitehj). 

 i, k. d 2 rid. sk. Tinta, Peru, May, June Seebohm Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 

 I, in. tf; n. <S ad. Sitani,Tarapaca, Jan. (A. A. Berkeley James Coll. 



sk. Lane). 



o, p, q. <$ ; r. J Sacaya, Tarapaca, Feb., Berkeley James Coll. 

 ad. sk. March (A. A. Lane). 



11. LOBIVANELLUS*. T 



Lobivanellus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841 , p. -33 L. lo'batus. 



Lobibvx, H?ine fy Rrichen. Nomencl. Mus. Jiein. Orn. 



p. 334 (1890) L. lobatus. 



Range. Africa generally, below the deserts of the Soudan. 

 Australia and the Papuan Islands. 



Key to the Species t. 



a. Sides of face and hind neck white ; throat white ; 



forehead and crown black. 



a'. Sides of chest black ; a black band also crossing 



the hinder neck above the mantle and joining 



the black crown, so as to interrupt the white 



collar lobatus, p. 139. 



* There is some difficulty about the adoption of this name, and according 

 to Dr. Stejneger these birds ought to bear the name of Parra of Linnaeus (Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 259, 1766). This is a radical change, however, which I cannot bring 

 myself to adopt ; but I have dropped the name of Parra for the Jacanas, in 

 consequence of the confusion which surrounds it. 



Dr. Stejneger (Auk, ii. p. 339) has shown that the genus Parra of Linnaeus 

 is a composite one with 5 species, as follows : — 1. P. dominica ; 2. P. senegalla ; 

 3. P.jacana; 4. P. variabilis; 5. P. chavaria. 



Admitting the Brissonian genus Jacana, which is additional to Parra of 

 Linnaeus, Nos. 3 and 4, which are identical, become eliminated, and the type 

 of the genus Parra, L., must be sought for in Nos 1, 2, and 5. Chauna was 

 created by Illiger in 1811 for P. chavaria, and therefore, as Dr. Stejneger 

 admits, the type must be restricted either to Nos. 1 or 2, which, he snys, are 

 'Old World' CharadriidcB. The name Parra dominica,^., is founded on the 

 ' Vanneau arme de S. Domingue' of Brisson (Orn. v. p. 118), and that of 

 P. senegalla, L., founded on the ' Vanneau arme du Senegal ' of Brisson {t. c. 

 p. Ill, pi. s. fig. 2). My conclusion is that Lobivanellus of Strickland must be 

 retained for L. lobatus, though the most typical species in his mind in 1841 

 was probably L. goensis. This, however, was made the type of Sarcogrammvs 

 by Reichenbach in 1852 ; and all the other specie9 enumerated by Strickland 

 have had some generic name given to them, with the exception of Parra domi- 

 nica of Linnaeus, a species which 1 have not been able to identify, and for 

 which I propose that the generic name of Parra, L., now surrounded by so 

 much uncertainty, shall be retained by those who wish to do so. 



t The form of the facial lappet varies somewhat in the Australian and 

 African species ; but the Australian birds themselves do not entirely agree in 

 this respect. 



