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black ; secondaries white ; tail white with a subterminal black 
band, wanting in the outermost feathers; a narrow band from 
the lores through the eyes, black ; sides of head and neck, both 
in front and on the sides above, pale rufous, passing to brownish 
on the lower part of the neck, and to brownish-ashy on the 
breast ; middle of the abdomen deep black, bordered posteriorly. 
by deep chesnut; lower belly, vent, and under tail-coverts 
white. 
The Black-sided Lapwing occurs as a cold weather visitant 
more or less commonly throughout the region. 
Chettusia villotcei, Aud. 
853.—C. leucura, Licht—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p. 646; C. flavipes, Sav.; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IV, p. 13; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 229; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 132. 
THE WHITE-TAILED LAPWING. 
Length, 11; expanse, 23; wing, 7; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 26; 
bill at front, 1. 
Bill black ; irides brownish-red ; legs bright yellow. 
General color above brownish-grey, with a reddish-purple gloss on 
the mantle, extending over the tertiaries; head and neck browner 
and glossless; the throat and around the bill white ; breast more 
ashy ; the feathers margined paler ; rest of the under parts, with the 
tail and its upper-coverts, white ; the belly and flanks conspicuous- 
ly tinged with dull rosy, or a roseate-cream hue; primaries and 
their coverts black; the secondaries and their coverts largely 
tipped with white, and having a black bar above the white ; rest 
of the wing-coverts like the back. 
With the exception of the Deccan, the White-tailed Lapwing 
is a not uncommon winter visitant throughout the region. 
It is by no means so rare as Jerdon states. 
Chettusia cinerea, Bly. 
854.—C. inornata, T. and Schleg—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 646; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 182. 
THE GREY-HEADED LAPWING. 
Length, 14 to 15; expanse, 30°5 to 32°5 ; wing, 9°5 to 10; tail, 
45 to 5; tarsus, 3 to 3:3; bill at front, 1:5; bill at gape, 1:5. 
Bill bright yellow, terminal one-third deep black ; irides light 
crimson; eyelids plumbecus; edges of eyelids and lores bright 
yellow; legs and feet yellow. 
General color of the upper parts pale greyish-brown; the 
head, neck, and breast, pure light grey, passing into black on the 
lower part of the breast, and terminating abruptly, contrasting 
with the white belly; primaries, their coverts, and the winglet, 
black ; the secondaries and their coverts chiefly white, and the 
