VANELLINZE 339 
Genus, Lobipluvia. 
Wattles yellow ; bill rather slender ; hind-toe absent. 
Lobipluvia malabarica, Bodd. 
856.—Sarciophorus bilobus, Gm.—dJerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 649; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 14; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 427; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 230; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 
THE YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING. 
Length, 11°75; expanse, 27; wing, 825; tail, 3:25; tarsus, 
2:5; bill at front, 1. 
Bill yellow, black at tip; lappet pale-yellow ; irides pale-yellow ; 
legs yellow. 
Head and nape black; rest of the upper plumage, including 
wing-coverts and tertiaries, chin, throat, and upper part of 
breast, pale ashy-brown; a white streak from behind the eye 
bordering the black head all round; winglet and primaries 
black ; secondaries white at their base, brownish-black for the 
greater part of their length, the white increasing in extent to- 
wards the last, and with the tips of the greater wing-coverts 
forming a not very conspicuous white wing-band ; upper tail- 
coverts white; tail white with a broad blackish subterminal 
band, evanescent on the outer feathers ; beneath, from the breast, 
pure white. 
The Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a more or less common 
permanent resident throughout our limits. It affects dry 
uplands and sandy plains, and does not evince that partiality 
for damp localities shown by the other members of this group. 
The eggs, four in number, are deposited in a depression scratched 
in the bare ground, without any attempt at concealment. They 
are similar in shape to those of L. indicus, but are consider- 
ably smaller, averaging 145 in length by 107 in width. The 
ground color varies from buffy to olive-green, and they are 
thickly blotched, spotted and streaked with pale olive-brown 
and dingy inky-purple. 
Genus, Hoplopterus, Bona. 
Wings furnished with a long and stout, slightly curved horny 
spur, present at all seasons; no hind-toe; otherwise as in 
Vanellus. 
Hoplopterus ventralis, Cuv. 
857.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 650; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 231; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India; Ibis, 1885, p. 135. 
THE SPUR-WINGED LAPWING. 
Length, 12; expanse, 25; wing, 8; tail, 4; tarsus, 2°5 ; bill 
at front, 1°12. 
