346 CHARADBIID2E LOBIVANELLUS 



hind toe present, though very small ; outer and middle toes con- 

 nected by a basal web. 



This genus contains four species, two of which are found in 

 Africa and two in Australasia ; only one of these comes within the 

 limits of our fauna. 



716. LobiYanellus lateralis. Wattled Plover. 



Vanellus lateralis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Aves pi. 23 (1839). 



Lobivanellus senegalensis (nee Linn.), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 331. 



Chettusia lateralis, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 292 (1867); Buckley, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 387. 



Lobivanellus lateralis, Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 267 

 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 283 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 [Mashona- 

 land] ; Holub & Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 240 (1882) ; Seebohm, Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadr. p. 193, with fig. (1888) ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, 

 p. 144 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. p. 187 (1896) ; Sowerby, Ibis, 1898, 

 p. 575 ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 264 ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 452 ; 

 Reichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 194 (1900). 



Lobivanellus senegalus (nee Linn.), Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 

 pp. 666, 855 (1884). 



" Querri-querri " of Mashonas (Sowerby). 



Description. Adult Male. A double triangular wattle between 

 the eye and the beak ; forehead and fore part of the crown white ; 

 eyebrow and hind crown very dark brown, becoming lighter on the 

 nape and neck, where the feathers are dark-centred; back brown, 

 with an olive tinge, becoming paler on the wing-coverts, the tips of 

 which are white, forming a very conspicuous wing bar ; wing-quills, 

 primary coverts and bastard wing black, the bases of the primaries 

 white, which colour increases until only the distal third of the 

 secondaries are black ; upper tail-coverts and tail white, with a 

 broad subterminal black bar to the latter ; chin white, throat black ; 

 sides of the face and rest of the neck whitish streaked with dusky ; 

 breast olive-brown, like the back, below which is a transverse band 

 of black, best developed on the flanks; under tail-coverts, under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



Iris steel-grey, surrounded by a ring of tawny-brown, and again 

 by a ring of black ; bill bright gamboge yellow, tips black ; upper 

 portion of wattle bright brick-red, under portion and eyelid gamboge 

 yellow ; tarsi and feet pale greenish-yellow ; a pointed conical black 

 spur on the angle of the wing ; a small hind toe present. 



Length about 13*5 ; wing 9-5 ; tail 4-0 ; tarsus 3-25 ; culmen 1-3 ; 



