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4. Lobivanellus lateralis. 



Vanellus lateralis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Aft:, Birds, pi. 23 (1839: 

 U'Tugela R.); Hart/. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 213, note (1857). 



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

 Cape); Beichenb. Grallce, Taf. c. fig. 684 (1848); Mont.P.Z.S. 

 1865, p. 90 (Benguela); Finsch $r Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 643 

 (1870); Gurnet/ in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 267 (1872: Oka- 

 vango & Teoughe Rivers ; Lake Ngami ; Ondonga) ; At/res, Ibis, 

 1873, p. 283 (Transvaal); Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 428 (1881: 

 Caconda; Huilla ; Hurabe) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 (Masbona- 

 land) ; Holub $ Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 240 (1882 : Zambesi) ; 

 Bbhm, J. f. O. 1885, p. 39 (Gonda; "Urambo) ; Seebohm, Geogr. 

 Distt: Charadt: p. 193 (1888) ; Heine $• Beichen. Nomencl. Mus. 

 Hein. p. 334 (1890 : Damara-land) ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 7 

 (Victoria Nyanza) ; id. T'bg. Deutsch. Ost-Aft: p. 36 (1894: 

 Victoria Nyanza; Igonda; Wualaba; Ugalla; Ussambiro; Bukoba). 



Chettusia lateralis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 541 (1847); Gurnet/ Ibis, 

 1864, p. 3 (Damara-land) ; Layard, B. S. Aft: p. 292 (1867) ; 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 387 (Transvaal). 



Lobivanellus senegalensis (nee L.), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 332 (River 

 Shire"; Zambesi); Emin, J. f. O. 1891, p. 339 (Ussanibiro- 

 Umpeke). 



Lobivanellus senegalus inec L.), Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Aft: 

 pp. 666, 855 (1884) ; BUttik. Notes Leyd. Mus. xi. p. 199 (1889 : 

 Upper Cunene River) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 475 (Lake Shirwa ; 

 Palombi River). 



Adult female. Very similar to L. senegalus, but distinguished by 

 its ashy-blackish flanks, which form a conspicuous dark patch on 

 the sides of the body, extending as a dusky shade across the abdomen, 

 just below the brown of the breast : " bill and feet greenish, the 

 tip of the bill black ; carpal spur and claws blackish ; inferior 

 lobe of anteocular caruncle yellow, the superior lobule orange-red : ' 

 (Sir A. Smith). Total length 12 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 9-2, tail 4, 

 tarsus 3*3. 



Adult male. Similar to the female in plumage. Total length 

 11-5 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 89, tail 3-5, tarsns 35. 



Hab. S.E. Africa from Natal and the Transvaal, west to Benguela 

 and Mossamedes, north to the Zambesi and the Victoria Nyanza. 



a. Ad. sk. Tugela River, Katal (Sir South-African Museum. 



A. Smith). (Type of species.) 



b. d ad. sk. Transvaal, Nov. 27 (T. Shelley Coll. 



E. Buckley). 



e. 3 ad. sk. Transvaal (T. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 



d Ad. sk. Lower Shire" Valley (Sir Livingstone Expedition. 



J. Kirk). 



e f Ad sk Upper Shire" River, Nov. II. II. Johnston, Esq., 



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



a 9 ad sk. Lake Shirwa, May 6 (A. H. II. Johnston, Esq., 



Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



h i d 2 ad e k Palombi Plains, Shirwa II. II. Johnston, Esq., 



Distr.,Oct. [A. Whyte). C.B. [P.l. 



k. Ad. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



