162 CHAEADEIID^;. 



Charadrius albiceps (nee Gould), Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 526 (1832 : 



S. Africa). 

 Pluvianus armatus, Jard. #■ Selby, III. Orn. i. pi. 54 (1828 : S. Africa). 

 . Hoplopterus armatus, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 64 (1844 : 

 S. Africa) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 542 (1847) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. 

 Mus. Berol. p. 95 (1854 : Caffraria) ; Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 293 

 (1867 : Colesberg) ; Gitrney, Ibis, 1868, pp. 255, 468 (Potchef- 



. stroom) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 299 (Transvaal, breeding) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 387 (Transvaal to Matabele) ; Barrett, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 212 (Potcbefstroom). 



Hoplopterus speciosus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 542 (1847) ; Finsch Sf 

 Hartl. Yog. Ostafr. p. 639 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 12, 

 no. 9971 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 267 (1872 : 

 Damara to Great Namaqua Land ; Lake Ngami ; Teougbe and Oka- 

 vango Rivers) ; Bocage, J.f. 0. 1876, p. 296 (Rio Coroca ; Huilla) ; 

 id. Orn. Angola, p. 427 (1881 : Rio Cunene ; Humbe ; Benguela) ; 

 Sharjie, in Oates' Matabele- Land, App. B, p. 325 (1881 : Sasbe 

 River) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 (Great Chine Pan) ; Holub $ 

 Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 239 (1882 : Matabele ; Transvaal ; 

 Hart's R.) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 667 (1884) ; Fischer, 

 Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 391 (1884 : Pare" ; Naiwascha Lake) ; 

 . Bbhm, J. f. 0. 1885, p. 72 (Tanganyika) ; Fischer, t. c. p. 116 

 (Sigirari) ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 47 (Soboro) ; Matschie, t. c. 

 p. 138 (Karema) ; Emin, J. f. O. 1891, p. 58 (Ugogo) ; Beichen. 

 t. c. p. 141 (Mette Mette, Uniamuesi). 



Vanellus speciosus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 62 (1865 : 

 Caffraria) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr.^. 221 (1888); Shelley, 

 P. Z. S. 1889, p. 372 (Kilimanjaro) ; id. Ibis, 1894, p. 475 (Lake 



. Skirwa) ; Beichen. Vbg. Deutsch.-Ost-Afr. p. 36 (1894). 



Charadrius armatus, Chapman, Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 415 (1865 : 

 Lake Ngami). 



Lobivanellus albiceps (nee Gould), Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 26 (Nyasa- 

 land). 



Adult male. General colour above grey and black; the mantle, 

 back, scapulars, and parapteral plumes black ; the upper scapulars 

 •and the whole of the -wing-coverts lavender-grey, the greater wing- 

 coverts with white ends, the outer ones blackish on the inner webs ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the secondaries 

 with white bases, increasing in extent towards the innermost, which 

 are lavender-grey like the wing-coverts ; rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and base of tail pure white ; the end of the tail black, decreasing 

 in extent towards the outer feathers, which have a uarrow white 

 tip ; crown of head pure white, succeeded by a broad black band, 

 which occupies the occiput and nape, joins the black sides of the 

 face, and separates the white crown from a broad white collar round 

 the hind-neck; lores and sides of face, passing in a narrow line 

 above the eye, as well as the sides of the neck and entire throat 

 and breast, black ; abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts, and axillaries pure white ; quill-lining black : 

 "bill, feet, and toes black; iris red" (C. J. Andersson). Total 

 length 11 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 8*1, tail 3*3, tarsus 2-9. 



Hah. S.E. Africa from Natal to Damara-land and the Zambesi, 

 north to Uniamuesi. 



