SPUR-WINGED PLOVER. 175 
The bill is typically Vanelline ; in front, above and behind the eyes a fleshy 
wattle which develops into a long pendant lappet in front. The wing is long with 
the first three primaries about equal; on the bend of the wing a long sharp spur 
occurs which is smaller in the female. The legs are long and the feet small, the 
metatarsus being more than twice the length of the middle toe ; the metatarsus is 
transversely scaled in front, and in mature specimens apparently similarly covered 
behind. 
121. Lobibyx miles—LESSER MASKED PLOVER. 
[Tringa miles Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum., p. 51, (pref. Dec. 1st) 1783: Timor Laut. 
Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pl. 10 (pt. vim1.), Sept. Ist, 1842. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 1, pl. 130, April 
2nd, 1913. 
Lobivanellus personatus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vu. (Vol. VI., pl. 10), Sept. Ist, 1842: 
Coburg Peninsula, Northern Territory. 
Lobibyx miles harterti Mathews, Novy. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 215, Jan. 31st, 1912: Inkerman, 
Queensland. 
DisTRIBUTION.—North Queensland, Northern Territory, North-west Australia. 
Adult male Crown of head black ; hind-neck, sides of face, ear-coverts, throat, 
and entire under-surface pure white including the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 
under tail-coverts ; wings ash-grey ; middle of back, scapulars, and the innermost 
secondaries olive-grey ; upper outer edge of wing white; primary-coverts and 
primary-quills black, the latter paler on the inner webs and white at the base, some 
of the outer primaries brown at the ends ; secondaries black with grey at the base 
on the outer web and white on the inner one, the white and grey increasing on the 
inner secondaries where the black is confined to the tip; tail white with a broad 
subterminal band of black which is preceded by pale grey and tipped with the 
same colour—this same colour occupies the outer web of the innermost feathers ; 
facial wattles larger than in L. lobatus and extending over and behind the eye; 
bill yellow, tip brown; iris yellow; lapels and spurs yellow; tarsi and feet 
purple-red ; lower end of tibia pink. Total length 377 mm.; culmen 35, wing 228, 
tail 95, tarsus 74. 
Adult female——Similar to the adult male. 
Immature and Nestling—Appear to be undescribed. 
Nest.—A depression in the ground. 
Eggs.—Clutch, two to four; of a yellowish-stone ground-colour, slightly tinged 
with olive, with freckles, spots, and larger irregular-shaped markings of olive-brown 
and blackish-brown distributed over the entire surface of the shell, together with a 
few superimposed spots of dull bluish-black ; axis 4142 mm., diameter 33. 
Breeding-season.—August to October, January to April. 
Distribution and forms.—North and North-western Australia and the Moluccas. 
Three subspecies can be admitted : L. m. miles (Boddaert) from Timor Laut and the 
Moluccas ; L. m. personatus (Gould) from Northern Territory and North-western 
Australia, a darker race; and L. m. harterti Mathews from Northern Queensland, 
still darker and also larger. 
122. Lobibyx novehollandie.—SPUR-WINGED PLOVER. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pl. 9 (pt. virr.), Sept. Ist, 1842. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 1, pl. 129, April 
2nd, 1913. 
Tringa lobata Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. uxv., 1801, after May : New South Wales, 
based on Watling drawing No. 242. 
Not of Linné, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 148, Jan. Ist, 1758. 
Vanellus novehollandie Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. X1., pt. m., p. 516, 1819, Aug. 
New name for 7’. lobata Latham, 
