o3b4 VANELLINZ. 
tertiaries concolorous with the back; upper tail-coverts white, 
slightly tinged with brownish; and tail pure white, having a 
black subterminal band, broad on its medial feathers, nearly 
obsolete on the penultimates, and quite so on the outermost. 
The Grey-headed Lapwing is very rare. A single specimen 
was obtained by Colonel Swinhoe at the Depalpore Lake in 
January 1882. This appears to be the only recorded instance 
of its occurrence within our limits. 
Genus, Lobivanellus, Strickland. 
Bill moderately long and stout, the horny tip not much elevated ; 
a lappet of nude skin at the base of the bill in front of the 
eye; shoulder of the wing furnished with a tubercle which in 
some becomes developed at the breeding season into a short 
horny spur; tail even; wings long; a very small hind-toe and 
rudimentary claw. 
Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd. 
855.—L. goensis, Gm.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 648 ; 
Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 14; Deccan, Stray 
Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 427; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of 
Sind, p. 229; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 133. 
THE RED-WATTLED LAPWING. 
Titurt, Hin. 
Length, 12°8; expanse, 30; wing, 9°5; tail, 4°5; tarsus, 3; bill 
at front, 1:4. 
Bill red, tipped black ; eyelids and wattles lake-red ; irides red- 
brown ; legs bright yellow. 
Head, back of neck, face, chin, throat, and breast, glossy 
black ; ear-coverts white, continued in a stripe down the sides 
of the neck and round to the nape; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, 
and tertiaries, pale brownish-green, the wing-coverts glossed with 
purple ; a white band on the wing formed by the greater-coverts 
and partly by the secondaries ; primaries and most of the second- 
aries black ; winglet black; tail white with a black band near 
the tip, the central feathers tipped brown; beneath from the 
breast white. 
The Red-wattled Lapwing is a common permanent resident 
throughout the region. 
It breeds from March to August, but April, May, and June 
are the favorite months. The eggs are laid in a small depres- 
sion on the ground, are always four in number, and are of the 
typical Plover type, broad at one end, and much _ pointed 
towards the other. The ground color varies from a pale olive- 
green to a reddish-buff; the markings are deep brown or black, 
and there are spots, clouds and blotches, distributed more or 
less thickly over the whole surface, and besides this, there are 
often underlying clouds and spots of pale inky-purple. 
They average 1°64 inches in length by about 1:2 in breadth, 
