CHARADRIAD^. 267 



312. Lobivanellus lateralis (Smith). South-African Wattled 

 Plover. 



Vanellus lateralis, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 23. 



CheUusia lateralis, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 



p. 3. 



Layard's Oat. No. 557. 



Lobivanellus lateralis, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, 

 p. 643. 



I have met with this large Plover on the rivers 

 Okavango and Teoughe, at Lake Ngami, and in Ondonga 

 in the rainy season, when it is occasionally to be found in 

 small flocks, though more frequently in pairs or singly. 



It frequents the banks of streams and the sides of 

 marshy places; but though it appears to find its food, 

 consisting of insects and small mollusca, in the imme- 

 diate neighbourhood of such localities, I have never 

 observed that it approaches the water very closely. 



The iris is yellowish white, the legs and lower part of 

 the wattles lemon-yellow, the upper part of the wattles 

 red. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



313. HoplopterilS SpeciOSUS (Licht.). Blacksmith Plover. 



Pluvianus armatus, Jardine & Selby's 111. of Orn. vol. ii. pi. 54. 

 Charadrius albiceps, Temminck's PI. Col. pi. 526. 

 Hoplopterus armatus, Layard's Cat. No. 558. 



