332 VANELLIN&. 
Scn-FaMILy, Vanellinee. 
' Of moderate or largish size ; legs lengthened ; bill moderately 
strong ; a short hind-toe frequently present. 
Genus, Vanellus, Zin. 
Bill moderate, straight, compressed at the base; nostrils 
linear in a cleft occupying two-thirds of the upper mandible ; 
wing pointed, fourth and fifth quills longest; shoulder of wing 
with a tubercle; tail nearly even; a very short hind-toe; head 
crested. 
Vanellus vulgaris, Bechst. 
851.—V. cristatus, Mey.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p. 643; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 228. 
THE CRESTED LAPWING. 
Length, 12; wing, 9; tail, 4; tarsus, 2. 
Bill black ; irides hazel-brown ; legs orange-brown. 
Head with lengthened slender crest black; behind the eye, 
ear-coverts, nape, and sides of neck, white; upper plumage 
green, glossed with purple and coppery, becoming golden-green 
on the lower back and rump, and with a golden fulvous tinge 
on the scapulars; primaries black, the first three greyish-white 
at the tip; tail white at the base with a broad black terminal 
band, broadest on the medial feathers ; lores, chin, throat, and 
breast glossy biue-black; lower breast, abdomen, and _ vent 
white ; lower tail-coverts chesnut. 
In winter, the chin and throat. are white. 
The female only differs in having a shorter crest than the 
male. 
The Peewit is a cold weather visitant to Northern Sind ; it 
does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 
Genus, Chettusia, Bonap. 
- Bill stronger than in restricted Vanellus; head not crested ; 
plumage ashy ; tarsi moderately long, otherwise as in Vanel- 
lus. 
Chettusia gregaria, Pall. 
852.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p, 644; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 12; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 426; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 229. . 
| THE BLACK-SIDED LAPWING. 
Length, 18; wing, 85; tail, 35; tarsus, 2°3; bill at front, 
T2. 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown; legs dull black. 
Forehead and superciliary band passing round to the occiput 
white ; top of the head black; back of neck and upper plumage 
generally of an olivaceous-brown, tinged with grey; primaries. 
