CHETTUSIA. 591 



Hal. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, the Concan, Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajputana and Central India. 

 Frequents grassy plains in parties of from five to twenty. Its flesh is said to 

 be very delicate. 



1266. ChettUSia leuCUra (Licht.\ Jerd., B. Ind. \\\. p. 646, No. 

 853. Chettusia flavipes, Savtgny, desc. dV Egypt. Zool.p. 6, fig. 2. Chettusia 

 Villotaei, Audoin., Hume, Sir. F. I. p. 232 ; id., iv. p. 13 ; Murray ', Vert. 

 ZooL, Sind. p. 229. The WHITE-TAILED LAPWING. 



Head and neck brown, very pale, almost fulvous on the forehead ; a small 

 whitish patch behind the eye ; chin and throat white ; back and scapulars 

 brown, glossed with reddish purple ; upper tail coverts and tail white ; breast 

 pale greyish brown, bluish ashy on the lower part ; lower abdomen and under 

 tail coverts white, the former tinged of a roseate hue ; primaries black ; 

 secondaries white, broadly tipped on their outer webs with black ; median 

 and greater wing coverts basally ashy, broadly edged subterminally on the 

 outer web with black and tipped with white. 



Length. 11 to 11-5 inches; wing 7; tail 275 ; bill at front I ; bill black ; 

 irides brown red ; legs bright yellow. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, 

 Persia, Kutch, Kattiawar, and North Guzerat, also in Central India, and pro- 

 bably the Deccan ; common in the vicinity of jheels, tanks, &c. 



1267. Chettusia Cinerea (Blyth\ Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 180 ; Blyth, 

 B. Burm. p. 152; David et Oust Ois. Chine, p. 422; Hume and Dav., S/r. 

 F. vi. p. 456 ; Cripps, Sir. F. vii. p. 300 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 1 12 ; Oates, 

 Str. F. x. p. 238 ; id B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 372. Pluvianus cinereus, Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. I. p. 587. Lobivanellus inornatus, Temm. et Schleg, Faun. Jap. 

 Aves, p. 106, pi. 63. Chettusia inornata, Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 646. The 

 GREY-HEADED LAPWING. 



Head and neck all round grey ; back, rump, lesser and median wing coverts 

 and scapulars, also the tertiaries, greyish brown, with a faint vinous tinge ; 

 upper tail coverts white ; tail white, with a broad black band near the tip, 

 diminishing in width towards the lateral feathers and absent on the outermost; 

 primary coverts and primaries black ; greater wing coverts and secondaries 

 white ; breast greyish brown, bounded below by a broad black band ; rest of 

 under surface white ; edges of the eyelids, lappets and basal two-thirds of the 

 bill deep yellow; terminal third of bill black; irides red ; legs dull yellow. 



Length. 14*5 inches ; tail 4*5 ; wing 9*8 ; tarsus 3 ; bill from gape I '6. 



Hab. Northern India, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Kumaon ; also 

 British Burmah in Southern Pegu, Bassein, Tongoo, the low-lying parts of 

 Northern Tenasserim and Bengal, affecting swamps and marshy ground. It 

 is a winter visitant to these parts, leaving India during April. 



