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other instances of its capture in this division of the world, 

 viz. one in France, and the other in Austria. On this ac- 

 count the specific name of Isabettinus, given to it by MEYER, 

 has been preferred to that of Europceus, so inadvertently 

 imposed by LATHAM. Nothing is yet known respecting its 

 particular habits, its food, or the propagation of the species. 



PLATE 33 **. represents this bird of the natural size, from 



the specimen above alluded to. 

 Bill three quarters of an inch long, black, and arched to- General 

 wards the tip. Irides pale yellowish-grey. Forehead 

 and crown of the head pale buff-orange, passing towards 

 the occiput into ash-grey, below which backwards is a 

 triangular spot of black. Over each eye, and passing 

 round the hind part of the head (below the black spot), 

 is a band of pure white. From the posterior angle of 

 the eye is a streak of black. Throat and chin pale 

 reddish-white. The whole of the body sienna-yellow, 

 tinged with ash-grey, palest beneath. Greater quills 

 brownish-black ; outer tail-feathers having a small 

 dusky spot near their tips. Legs long, with the tibiae 

 naked for an inch above the tarsal joint. Toes short ; 

 the outer united to the middle toe by a rather broad 

 membrane, the inner toe by a smaller one. Claw of the 

 middle toe pectinated ; a peculiarity belonging also to 

 all the other species. 



GENUS VANELLUS, Bziss. LAPWING. 



GENERIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill shorter than the head, strait, slightly compressed; 

 the points of both mandibles horny and hard, rather swollen 

 and convex, the edges bent inwards ; nasal groove wide, and 

 reaching as far as the horny tip. The part of the culmen 

 that divides the nostrils lower than the tip of the bill. To- 

 mia of both mandibles, as far as the tip, equal. 



