112 CHARARIN.^. 



139. ChettUSia leucura {Lkht.\ Jerd., B. hid. iii. p. 646, No. 



853. Chettusia flavipes, Savigny, desc. dV Egypt. Zool.^. 6, fig. 2. Chettusia 

 Villotcei, Audoin., Hume, Sir. F. I. p. 232 ; id., iv, p. 13 ; Alurray, Ver/. 

 Zool.y Sind. p. 229; id , Avif. Brii. Ind. ii. p. 591, No. 1266. — The White- 

 tailed Lapwing. 



Head and neck brown, very pale, almost fulvous on the forehead; a small 

 whitish patch behind the eye ; chin and throat white ; back and scapulars 

 brown, glossed with reddish purple ; upper tail coverts and tail white ; breast 

 pale greyish brown, bluish ashy on the lower part ; lower abdomen and under 

 tail coverts white, the former tinged of a roseate hue ; primaries black ; 

 secondaries white, broadly tipped on their outer webs with black ; median 

 and greater wing coverts basally ashy, broadly edged subterminally on the 

 outer web with black and tipped with white. 



Length.— \\ to 11 '5 inches; wing 7; tail 275 ; bill at front I ; bill black ; 

 irides brown red ; legs bright yellow. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, 

 Persia, Kutch, Kattiawar, and North Guzerat, also in Central India, and pro- 

 bably the Deccan ; common in the vicinity of j heels, tanks, &c. Like the last 

 the flesh is considered good eating, after October, when they are then 

 extremely fat. 



140. Chettusia Cinerea {,Blyth\ Hume, Str. F. lii. p. l8o ; BIyth, 

 B. Biirm. p. 152; David et Oust Ois. Chine, p. 422; Hume and Dav., Str. 

 F. vi. p. 456 ; Cripps, Str. F. vii. p. 3OO ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 1 12 ; Gates, 

 Str. F. X. p. 238 ; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 372 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. 

 ii. p. 591, No. 1267, Pluvianus cinereus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. i. p. 587, 

 Lobivanellus inornalus, Temm. et Schleg, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 106, pi. 

 63. Chettusia inornata, Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 646. — The Grey-headed 

 Lapwing. 



Head and neck all round grey ; back, rump, lesser and median wing coverts 

 and scapulars, also the tertiaries, greyish brown, with a faint vinous tinge; 

 upper tail coverts white ; tail white, with a broad black band near the tip, 

 diminishing in width towards the lateral feathers and absent on the outermost; 

 primary coverts and primaries black ; greater wing coverts and secondaries 

 white ; breast greyish brown, bounded below by a broad black band ; rest of 

 under surface white ; edges of the eyelids, lappets and basal two-thirds of the 

 bill deep yellow; terminal third of bill black; irides red ; legs dull yellow. 



Length. — 14"5 inches ; tail 4*5 ; wing 9'8 ; tarsus 3 ; bill from gape v^. 



Hab. — Northern India, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Kumaon ; also 

 British Burmah in Southern Pegu, Bassein, Tongoo, the low-lying parts of 

 Northern Tenasserim and Bengal, affecting swamps and marshy ground. It 

 is a winter visitant to these parts, leaving India during April. 



