THE YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING. 375 



fields and grass-lands,, a few bits of Lard clay being sometimes placed 

 round them. In colour they are buff thickly blotched and spotted with 

 blackish brown. 



Genus LOBIPLUVIA, Bonap. 



722. LOBIPLUVIA MALABARICA. 



THE YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING. 



Charadrius malabaricus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 53. Charadrius bilobus, 

 Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 691. Sarciophorus bilobus, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 649 ; 

 Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 470; Bl. B. Burm. p. 153. Lobipluvia malabarica, 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 577 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 112 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl&n, 

 p. 966 ; Parker, 8. F. ix. p. 482 ; Hume, S. F. x. p. 238, note. 



Description. Male and female. Top of head and nape black,, bounded 

 by a white border running round the nape from the posterior corner of 

 the eye ; hind neck, back, scapulars and wing-coverts pale earth-brown, 

 passing into a lighter or greyer hue over the fore neck, throat and chest ; 

 chin, gorge and edge of brown pectoral region blackish ; upper tail-coverts, 

 tail, under surface, under wing- and under tail-coverts, the tips of the 

 secondary-coverts and base of secondaries, with the outer webs of some of 

 the underlying tertials, white ; quills and a subterminal band on all but the 

 two outer rectrices black, preceded on the central pair by a smoky wash. 

 Iii examples not fully adult the black caudal band extends to the penulti- 

 mate. (Legge.) 



Iris yellowish or grey, with a brown outer edge ; eyelid and wattles 

 lemon-yellow ; bill black, greenish yellow at the base ; tibia and tarsus 

 yellow ; feet clingy yellow ; claws black. (Legge.) 



Length 11 inches, tail 3, wing 8, tarsus 2'4, bill from gape T25. 



The Yellow-wattled Lapwing was procured at Thayetmyo by Mr. Blan- 

 ford some years ago, and there is no other record of its occurrence in 

 Burmah. 



It is met with over the whole of India and Ceylon. 



This Lapwing, according to Dr. Jerdon, frequents the drier parts of 

 India ; and this in some measure accounts for its having been found in the 

 dry district of Thayetmyo and not elsewhere in Burmah. It associates in 

 small flocks except at the "breeding-season, which in India appears to be 

 April and May. The eggs, four in number, are laid in a depression in the 

 ground in waste plains. 



