VANELLIN.E 335 



GENUS, Lobipluvia. 



Wattles yellow ; bill rather slender ; hind-toe absent. 



Lobipluvia malabarica, Bodd. 



856. SarctopJwrus bilobus, Gm. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. 



II, p. 649 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 14 ; 



Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 427 ; Murray's Vertebrate 



Zoology of Sind, p. 230 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 



Ibis, JT85, p. 133. 



THE YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING. 



Length, 1175; expanse, 27; wing, 8*25; tail, 3'25 ; tarsus, 

 2'5 ; bill at front, 1. 



Bill yellow, black at tip ; lappet pale-yellow ; irides pale-yellow ; 

 legs yellow. 



Head and nape black ; rest of the upper plumage, including 

 wing-coverts and tertiaries, chin, throat, and upper part of 

 breast, pale ashy-brown ; a white streak from behind the eye 

 bordering the black head all round ; winglet and primaries 

 black ; secondaries white at their base, brownish-black for the 

 greater part of their length, the white increasing in extent to- 

 wards the last, and with the tips of the greater wing-coverts 

 forming a not very conspicuous white wing-band ; upper tail- 

 coverts white ; tail white with a broad blackish subterminal 

 band, evanescent on the outer feathers ; beneath, from the breast, 

 pure white. 



Tim Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a more or less common 

 permanent resident throughout our limits. It affects dry 

 uplands and sandy plains, and does not evince that partiality 

 for damp localities shown by the other members of this group. 

 The eggs, four in number, are deposited in a depression scratched 

 in the bare ground, without any attempt at concealment. They 

 are similar in shape to those of L. indicus, but are consider- 

 ably smaller, averaging T45 in length by 1'07 in width. The 

 ground color varies from buffy to olive-green, and they are 

 thickly blotched, spotted and streaked with pale olive-brown 

 and dingy inky-purple. 



GENUS, Hoplopterus, Bona. 



Wings furnished with a long and stout, slightly curved horny 

 spur, present at all seasons ; no hind-toe ; otherwise as in 

 Vanellus. 



Hoplopterus ventralis, Cuv. 



857. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 650 ; Murray's Verte- 

 brate Zoology of Sind, p. 231 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 

 India; Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 



THE SPUE-WINGED LAPWING. 



Length, 1 2 ; expanse, 25 ; wing, 8 ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, 2'5 ; bill 

 at front, 1'12. 



