242 STRIPE -THROATED LAPWING. 



short stripes of the same colour ; the lores, or space 

 between the bill and eye, is occupied by a naked 

 skin, detached round its margin, and hanging down 

 as a pendent lobe ; the colour in the preserved spe- 

 cimen is rich yellow tinged with red or orange. 

 The chin and front of the throat, nearly to the breast, 

 is unbroken black, which terminates round the con- 

 fines in short black stripes. The black of the quills 

 is separated, as usual in this genus, from the brown 

 of the covers by a broad white space. The first, 

 second, and third quills are the longest ; the tail, 

 which is even, has the basal half and the tip white, 

 the rest occupied by a broad black band ; the wings 

 are long and project a little beyond the tail. The 

 interior wing-covers and the under tail-covers are 

 white, the former pure, the latter tinged with ful- 

 vous. Feet clear yellow ; the claws and the wing- 

 spur deep black ; inner toe shortest, hinder toe very 

 minute. 



Total length about 12 inches; bill, 1 T 3 C ; wings, 

 9 ; tail from the )>ase, 4 > tarsus,, ^ , hinder toe mi 

 niite, only ^. 



