ISO CHAEADEnD^I. 



2. Stephanibyx melanopterus. 



Charadrius melanopterus, Cretzschm. in Hupp. Atlas, p. 46, pi. 31 

 (1826) ; Less. Compl. Buff. ix. p. 409 (1837) ; RUpp. Syst. Uebers. 

 p. 118 (1845); Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 544 (1847); Heugl. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 66 (1856) ; Hart I. Orn. Westafr. p. 212, note (1857) ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 23 (British Kaffiaria). 



Charadrius spixii, Wagler, Syst. Av., Charadrius, p. 57, sp. 7 (1827). 



Chettusia? melanoptera, Gray, List Grallm Brit. Mus. p. 64 (1844). 



yEgialitis melanopterus, Reichenb. Grail. Taf. xcix. fig. 705 (1846). 



Hoplopterus spixii, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 542 (1847). 



Charadrius frontalis, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockholm, 

 1850, p. 110. 



Hoplopterus melanopterus, Lieht. Nomenel. Av. Berol. p. 95 (1854) ; 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 294 (1867: Natal; Mossel Bay); Gray, 

 JIand-l. B. iii. p. 13, no. 9978 (1871) ; Heugl Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. 

 pt. i. p. 1010 (1871 : Mensa ; from Hamasien south to Galla-land ; 

 not west of Lake Tana) ; Hartert, Kat. J'ogels. Mus. Sencke?ib. 

 p. 216 (1891 : Jeddah). 



Stephanibyx spixii, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 419 (1856). 



Yanellus melanopterus, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 217 (Xatal) ; id. 

 op. cit. 1862, p. 38 ; Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc. iv. p. 52 

 (1865) ; Hurting, Ibis, 1869, p. 309 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 344 

 (Xatal) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 224 (1888). 



Vanellus spixii, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 63 (1865). 



Chettusia melanoptera, Blanf. Geol. fy Zool. Abyss, p. 429 (1870 : 

 7000-10,000 feet) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 328 (1870) ; id. 8f 

 Hartl. Vbg. Ostafr. p. 638 (1870) ; Antin. Sf Salvad. Viagg. 

 Bogos, p. 144 (1873 : Assu?, Samhar) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. 

 S. Afr. p. 669 (1884 : Grahamstown ; Eland's Post ; Pt. Eliza- 

 beth ; British Kaff raria) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 47 (Ugaia) ; 

 Sharpe, Lbis, 1892, p. 544 (Machako's). 



Stephanibyx melanoptera, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 220 

 (1884 : Shoa) ; id. op. cit. (2) yi. p. 310 (1888 : Sboa). 



Vanellus inornatus (nee Swains.), Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 29 (Mpinibi), 

 1894, p. 26 (Tschiromo). 



Adult female. General colour above dark brown, with a slight 

 gloss of coppery lilac ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, 

 the latter tipped with white and having a sub-terminal line of black 

 on the lowest series ; the greater coverts pure white, the inner ones 

 brown at the base and finally marked, like the median series, with a 

 sub-terminal line of blackish; bastard-wing brown; primary-coverts 

 and quills black, the outer secondaries white at the base, the white 

 increasing on the adjoining ones till the ends of the outer web only 

 are marked with black; inner secondaries pure white, but the 

 innermost brown like the back ; lower back and rump rather more 

 dusky brown than the back ; upper tail-coverts and tail pure white, 

 with a broad sub-terminal band of black, followed by a narrow 

 white tip, the black band decreasing in width towards the outer 

 feathers, and even becoming imperfect on the outermost feather; 

 bead and neck all round ashy grey, shading off into the brown of 

 the mantle, and becoming darker and more slaty grey on the lower 

 throat and fore-neck, and followed by a distinctly-marked band of 

 blue-black on the chest ; chin whitish ; lores and a broad frontal 



