334 VANELL1NJB. 



tertiaries concolorous with the back ; upper tail-coverts white, 

 slightly tinged with brownish ; and tail pure white, having a 

 black subterminal band, broad on its medial feathers, nearly 

 obsolete on the penultimates, and quite so on the outermost. 



The Grey-headed Lapwing is very rare. A single specimen 

 was obtained by Colonel Swinhoe at the Depalpore Lake in 

 January 1882. This appears to be the only recorded instance 

 of its occurrence within our limits. 



GENUS, Lobivanellus, Strickland. 



Bill moderately long and stout, the horny tip not much elevated ; 

 a lappet of nude skin at the base of the bill in front of the 

 eye ; shoulder of the wing furnished with a tubercle which in 

 some becomes developed at the breeding season into a short- 

 horny spur ; tail even ; wings long ; a very small hind-toe and 

 rudimentary claw. 



Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd. 



855. L. goensis, Gm. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 648 ; 



Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 14 ; Deccan, Stray 



Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 427 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of 



Sind, p. 229 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 



p. 133. 



THE RED-WATTLED LAPWING. 

 Tituri, Hin. 



Length, 12'8 ; expanse, 30 ; wing, 9*5 ; tail, 4'5 ; tarsus, 3 ; bill 

 at front, 1*4. 



Bill red, tipped black ; eyelids and wattles lake-red ; irides red- 

 brown ; legs bright yellow. 



Head, back of neck, face, chin, throat, and breast, glossy 

 black ; ear-coverts white, continued in a stripe down the sides 

 of the neck and round to the nape ; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 and tertiaries, pale brownish-green, the wing-coverts glossed with 

 purple ; a white band on the wing formed by the greater-coverts 

 and partly by the secondaries ; primaries and most of the second- 

 aries black ; winglet black ; tail white with a black band near 

 the tip, the central feathers tipped brown ; beneath from the 

 breast white. 



The Red-wattled Lapwing is a common permanent resident 

 throughout the~regiOD. 



It breeds from March to August, but April, May, and June 

 are the favorite months. The eggs are laid in a small depres- 

 sion on the ground, are always four in number, and are of the 

 typical Plover type, broad at one end, and much pointed 

 towards the other. The ground color varies from a pale olive- 

 green to a reddish-buff; the markings are deep brown or black, 

 and there are spots, clouds and blotches, distributed more or 

 less thickly over the whole surface, and besides this, there are 

 often underlying clouds and spots of pale inky-purple. 



They average T64 inches in length by about 1*2 in breadth. 



