CHARADRIID^E STEPHANIBYX 355 



720. Stephanibyx coronatus. Crowned Lapwing. 



Charadrius coronatus, Bodd. PL Enl. p. 49 (1783) ; Grill, K. Vet. Akad. 



Handl ii, no. 10, p. 52 (1858). 

 Hoplopterus coronatus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 294 (1867) ; Buckley, 



Ibis, 1874, p. 387 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 191 ; Butler, Feilden and 



Eeid, Zool 1882, p. 341 ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 237 (1893) ; 



id. Nature and Sport, p. 102 (1897). 

 Vanellus coronatus, Gurneij, Ibis, 1868, p. 49 [Upper Natal]; Ayres, 



Ibis, 1869, p. 300; Sccbolun, Gcogr. Distr. Cliaradr. p. 222, with fig. 



(1888). 

 Chettusia coronata, Gnrncy, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 268 (1872) ; 



Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 456; Oates, Matabcleland, p. 325 (1881); 



Holub <& Pclz., Orn. Sud-Afr. p. 236 (1882); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 363 [Spaldingsj; Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 670, 855 



(1884); Flccli, Journ. Ornitli. 1894, p. 382; Haagner, Ibis, 1902, 



pp. 574, 580. 

 Stephanibyx coronatus, Sliarpc, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 178 (1896) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 188 (1896) ; Woodward Bros. Natal Bds. p. 184 (1899) ; 



Beichenoiu, Vog. Afr. i, p. 180 (1900) ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, pp. 



16, 346 (1902) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 236 ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1904, 



p. 9 [Deelfontein] . 



"Kiewit" or "Kiewitje" of the Dutch; " Ititihoya " of Zulus (Wood- 

 ward). 



Description. Adult Male. Centre of the crown black, sur- 

 rounded by a white ring, this again is surrounded by a black ring 

 which occupies the forehead and lores, and running above the eye 

 and ear-coverts meets its fellow on the nape ; back and wings pale 

 olive-brown ; the greater coverts with broad white tips forming with 

 some of the inner secondaries a band of that colour ; primary 

 coverts also white ; wing-quills Iblack with concealed white bases ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail white, the latter with a broad subterminal 

 band of black, less broad on the outer feathers ; chin and throat, 

 lower breast, abdomen, under wing- and tail-coverts white ; sides 

 of the face, neck and breast olive-brown of a rather paler shade 

 than that of the back ; a narrow transverse band of black crosses 

 the breast dividing the olive-brown from the white. 



Iris yellow ; bill bright red, the tip horn- coloured ; feet bright 

 red, the toes tinged with dark purple on the upper surface. No 

 spur, wattle or hind toe. 



Length about 12-0 ; wing 7'7 ; tail 3-5 ; culmen 1-2 ; tarsus 3-0. 



The sexes are alike. A young bird is like the adult but browner, 

 the feathers of the upper parts mottled and barred with paler. The 

 crown is brown with sandy edges to the feathers, the ring round is 

 sandy-buff and only white on the occiput. 



