292 BIRDS OP SOUTH AFRICA. 



556. Glareola Ocularis, a. Smith ; a. Oeofroyi 



Pucher, 



Head and shoulders, green-black ; under each eye a fine 

 transverse white stripe ; upper parts of neck and back green- 

 grey ; chin white ; under parts of neck and the breast, 

 brownish-grey ; anterior part of belly pale-chesaut ; hinder 

 parts, aud under and upper tail-coverts, white ; base of tail 

 partly black and partly white, the tips of a few of the 

 feathers white, the other parts pure black ; bill black, with 

 the edges of the mandibles towards the angles of the mouth, 

 red. Length about eight inches and a half. 



Inhabits Soutli Africa. — Dr. A. Smith, S. A. Journal of Science. 

 Sed nou vidi. 



The Sub-Family, CHARADRIN-ffiJ, or Plovers, 



have the bill more or less long and slender, the culineu de- 

 pressed at the base, but vaulted at the tip, the sides com- 

 pressed and grooved ; the nostrils basal, linear, and placed 

 in the groove of the upper mandible ; the wings long and 

 pointed ; the tail moderate, broad, and generally even ; the 

 tarsi usually long, and rather slender; the toes sometimes 

 four in number ; the outer toe longer than ihe inner, and 

 more or less united at the base ; the claws small, compressed, 

 and curved. 



Genus CHETrUSIA, Pr. Bonaparte. 

 Bill moderate, and more or less strong, with the culmcn 

 depressed at the base, and vaulted at the tip ; the sides com- 

 pressed and grooved ; the nostrils lateral, basal, and placed 

 in the groove of the upper mandible, which extends for two- 

 thirds of its length, with the opening linear ; wings long 

 and pointed, with the first, second, and third quills nearly 

 equal and longest ; tail inoderate, broad, and even ; tarsi 

 much longer than the middle toe, slender, and covered in 

 front with divided broad scales ; toes four ; the three ante- 

 rior toes long and rather slender ; the outer toe longer than 

 the inner, and united at the base ; the hind toe short aud 

 elevated ; the front of the head sometimes lobed, and the 

 wings sometimes armed with a spine. 



557. OhettUSia Lateralis; Vanellus Lateralis, 

 Smith, Zool. S. A., PI. 23. 



Front of head white, with a brown bar extending over the 

 vertex ; back of the neck, back, and rump, brown, tinged 

 and glossed with green ; wing-featfiers black ; tail white, 



