CHETTUSIA MELANOPTERA. 669 
in the interior at Huilla and Humbe, where it bears the name of 
Kukolekole. 
General colour, black; top of head, and forehead, patch at back 
of neck, lower front of belly, vent, and basal two-thirds of tail, 
white; lesser wing-feathers grey ; legs and bill black; wing armed 
with a sharp spur. Length, 12”; wing, 8’ 7”’; tail, 4” 6”. 
Fig. Temm, Pl. Col. 526. 
643. Hoprtorrerus crassirostris, De Filipi. 
Thick-billed Spur-winged Plover. 
A single example of this rare species was obtained by Mr. 
Fellowes at Ihluhlui Bay, a little inlet in Santa Lucia Bay, but we 
have seen no other specimens. 
Front two-thirds of the head-centre of neck, wing (with exception 
of three first quill feathers), basal half of tail, sides, belly, and vent, 
_ pure white; back of head and neck, chest, three first wing-feathers, 
shining jet black; base of back of the neck and back, and wing 
secondaries, grey-brown; apical portion of tail black ; legs and base 
of bill red; point black; cere of eye red. Length, 13"; wing, 
7” 8"; tail, 4” 6’; wing spur, 3” ; irides, black. 
644, CHrrrusia MELANoPTERA, Riipp. Black-winged Lapwing. 
Hoplopterus melanopterus, Layard, B. 8. Afr., p. 204. 
The genus Chettusia is recognizable by its three toes and by the 
absence of a spur on the wing and of the facial lobes. Procured in 
certain circumscribed localities in the neighbourhood of Mossel Bay 
by Messrs. Atmore. Mr. Glanville informs us that several have 
been shot near Grahamstown on the Commonage, and Mr. I’. Atmore 
has forwarded it from Eland’s Post. Mr. Rickard tells us that it is 
very common at Port Elizabeth and East London, and forwarded an 
egg which he took out of a bird shot on the 23rd of August, 1869. 
It is very unlike that of H. coronatus, being of a pale grey-green 
ground, spotted throughout with rather small blotches and spots of 
various shades of brown and light purple, rather thickest at the 
obtuse end. Axis, 1" 9"; diam., 1” 2”. 
In British Caffraria, says Capt. Trevelyan, “it is common, but 
to the west of the Fish River its place appears to be taken by 
QO. coronata. It is said to have occurred in Natal. 
General colour of back, brown, with a purple gloss; forehead, 
