592 VANELLIN^E. 



Gen. HoplopterUS Bonap. 

 Shoulder of wing with a stout spur. No hind toe in the Indian species. 



1268. HoplopterUS ventraliS ( Wagl.\ Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 650; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 578; id., Str. F. iii, p. 181 ; Blyth, B. 

 Burm* p. 153; David et Oust, Ois. Chine, p. 423; Anderson, Yunnan 

 Exped.> p. 675 ; Hume and Dav., vi. p. 457; Cripps, Sir. F. vii. p. 300; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 112 ; Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 352; Oates, Sir. F. x. 

 p. 238 ; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 373 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, fyc., Sind. p. 21 1 ; 

 id., Vert. Zool., Sind., p. 231. The SPUR-WINGED LAPWING. 



Head, crest, lores, sides of the face as far as the middle of the eye, chin, 

 throat, and foreneck black ; a white streak from behind the eye on each side 

 meeting on the nape, bordering the black feathers of the hind crown and 

 nape; cheeks white, the white extending on to the upper breast all round, 

 enclosing the black of the foreneck and forming a pectoral patch ; breast 

 below black ; scapulars and tertials pale brown ; shoulder of the wing black ; 

 primaries black ; secondaries basally white, tipped and edged with black, the 

 black decreasing in extent on the hinder feathers ; greater wing coverts white, 

 forming a conspicuous wing band ; upper and under tail coverts and entire 

 under surface white, except a patch on the middle of the abdomen ; tail 

 white, broadly terminated with black. 



Length* 12 inches; wing 7-75 to 8; tail 4 to 4*2; bill at front ri; bill 

 black ; irides deep brown ; legs blackish, tinged with reddish. 



Hab. Northern India generally, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, British 

 Burmah, Bengal, and Central India, along the sandy banks of rivers ; also in 

 Pegu and Nepaul. It is rare in Sind. A single specimen was got by Mr. W. 

 Wallinger on the banks of the Indus near Buggatora, who also mentions 

 having seen it on the Aral near Sehwan. Breeds on the banks and in the 

 beds of most of the larger rivers of India and Pegu, penetrating the hills to 

 2,OOO feet. March and April are the months in which it lays. Eggs, four 

 in number, from a stone to olivaceous drab colour, profusely spotted with 

 dark and purplish brown. In size they vary from 1-42 to 178 in length, 

 and in breadth from i'i2 to 1*3 inches. 



Gen. Lobivanellus- Strickl. 



A lappet of skin in front of the eye extending to the base of the bill ; hind 

 toe very small . 



1269. Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd., P. E. 807 ; Gould, C. B. 



E. pi. 78 ; Sir. F. iii. 648 ; vii. 67 ; Hume, Nesls and Eggs Ind. B. p. 574. 

 Lobivanellus goensis, Jerd., iii. p. 648, No. 855 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc. 

 Sind, p. 21 1 ; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. The RED-WATTLED LAPWING or 



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