142 CHARADEIID^;. 



Vanneau arme" du Senegal, D'Aubent. PL Enl. viii. pi. 362. 



Tringa senegalen-is, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat., Anhang, p. 113 (1776) ; 

 Cass. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1864, p. 246. 



Senegal Sandpiper, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 166 (1785 : Senegal). 



Tringa senegalla, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 728 (1790). 



Vanellus albicapillus, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 205 (1819) ; 

 Less. TraitS d'Om. p. 542 (1831) ; Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 1 (JO, pi. 236 

 (1834). 



Vanellus senegalus, Vieill. N. Lief. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 209 (1819). 



Vanellus senegalensis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 515 (1819). 



Charadrius albicapillus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Charadrius, sp. 53, p. 77 

 (1827). 



^ anellus strigilatus, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 241, pi. (1837). 



Lobivanellus senegallus, StricM. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33; Blanf. Geol. 

 §• Zool. Abyss, p. 431 (1870 : Agula below 7000 ft. ; Anseba 

 Valley). 



Lobivanellus albicapillus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33 ; Reichenb. 

 Grail. Taf. c. figs. 682-683 (1848) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 221 

 (Kordofan) ; Finsch # Hartl. Yog. Ostafr. p. 642 (1870) ; Finseh, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 296 (1870: Kokai ; Gabena AYeldt 

 Gonfalon). 



Lobivanellus senegalus, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 65 (1844: 

 Gambia) ; Licht. Xomencl. Av. Mus. Berul. p. 95 (1854 : Senegal) ; 

 Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 418 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 213 (1857: 

 Senegambia ; Casamanse ; Gaboon) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cur- 

 sores, p. 68 (1865 : Senegambia; Gold Coast) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 73 (Plains of Accra) ; Pelz. Verhandl. z.-b. Gts. Wien, xxxi. 

 p. 155 (1881: Majningo) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. 

 p. 441 ,1884: Kutchugali) ; Hartert, J.f. O. 1886, p. 609 (Anas- 

 sawara). 



Lobivanellus senegalensis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 117 (1845; Al>vs- 

 sinia) ; Heugl. Si/st. Uebers. p. 55 (1856 : Abyssinia; White Nile) ; 

 Ant in. Cat. des'cr. Ucc. p. 97 (1864: Obeid) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 1000 (1873 : E. & C.Abyssinia to Bogos, at 3000 

 to 8000 feet ; E. Kordofan, from the Bender and Rabad rivers 

 westward to Qualabat; Upper White Nile and tributaries); 

 Antin. fy Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, p. 143 (1873: Anseba); Hartl. 

 Abhandl. nat. Verein. Bremen, vii. p. 127 (1881 : Equatorial Africa) ; 

 id. op. cit. viii. p. 231 (1883) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. (2) i. p. 274 

 (1884 : Shoa) ; id. op. cit. (2) vi. p. 310 (1888 : Cialalaka) ; Seebolnn, 

 Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 191 (1888); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 544 

 (Victoria Nyanza). 



Cbettusia senegalla, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 541 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 12, no. 9964 (1871) ; Kendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 229 (Senegambia). 



Cbettusia albicapillus, Gray. Gen. B. iii. p. 541 (1847j. 



Lobibvx senegalus, Heine fy Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Llein. p. 334 

 (1890: White Nile). 



Vanellus albifrons, Riipp. MSS. (teste Heuglin). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with a faint gloss of 

 olive-green, the lower back and rump slightly darker ; wing-coverts 

 lighter, ashy or drab-brown, the median series with narrow whitish 

 edges, the greater coverts white, with ashy-brown bases ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the primaries white at the 

 base of the inner web, the secondaries white at the base of both 

 webs, the white increasing on the inner secondaries till only the 



