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STRIPE-THROATED LAPWING. 



Vanellus strigilatus, SWAINS. , , 



PLATE XXVII. 



Bill with a pendent lobe ; forehead white ; crown, sides of 

 the head, throat, and breast, marked with longitudinal black 

 stripes ; feet four-toed. 



Vanellus albicapillus, Vieil Charadrius albicapillus, Juv. (?) 



Wagler, Syst. Av. 53 Vanneau arme*, du Senegal ? ? PI. 



EnL. 362 Vanellus Senegalensis ? Shaw, Gent. Zool. xi. 2. 



515. 



THERE is a peculiar gracefulness in these long-legged 

 plovers, which, joined to the delicate tints of their 

 plumage and the singular fleshy wattles which ge- 

 nerally ornament their head, renders them very in- 

 teresting birds. The present species has been con- 

 sidered, for what reason we know not, as the young 

 of albicapillus, a species found, we believe, in India. 

 The singularity, however, of the short black stripes, 

 which extend round the confines of the deep black 

 in front of the chin and throat, will at once dis- 

 tinguish it from that and all the other species of 

 this numerous and intricate group. 



General colour of the plumage isabella-brown ; 

 front, as far as the middle of the crown, white ; the 

 remainder portion of the head black, terminating in 



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