292 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



556. Glareola Ocularis, A. Smith ; a. 



Pucber. 



HEAD and shoulders, green -black ; under each eye a fine 

 transverse white stripe ; upper parts of neck and back green- 

 grey; chin white; under parts of neck and the breast, 

 brownish-grey ; anterior part of belly pale-chesnut ; hinder 

 parts, aud under and upper tail-coverts, white ; base of tail 

 partly black and partly white, the tips of a few of the 

 feathers white, the other parts pure black ; bill black, with 

 the edges of the mandibles towards the angles of the mouth, 

 red. Length about eight inches and a half. 



Inhabits South. Africa. Dr. A. Smith, S. A. Journal of Science. 

 Sed non vidi. 



The Sub-Family, CHARADRINJE, or Plovers, 



have the bill more or less long and slender, the culmen de- 

 pressed at the base, but vaulted at the tip, the sides com- 

 pressed and grooved ; the nostrils basal, linear, and placed 

 in the groove of the upper mandible ; the wings long and 

 pointed ; the tail moderate, broad, and generally even ; tho 

 tarsi i sually long, and rather slender ; the toes sometimes 

 four in number ; the outer toe longer than the inner, and 

 more or less united at the base ; the claws small, compressed, 

 and curved. 



Genus CHETTUSIA, Pr. Bonaparte. 

 Bill moderate, and more or less strong, with the culmen 

 depressed at the base, and vaulted at the tip ; the sides com- 

 pressed and grooved ; the nostrils lateral, basal, and placed 

 in the groove of the upper mandible, which extends for two- 

 thirds of its length, with the opening linear ; wings long 

 and pointed, with the first, second, and third quills nearly 

 equal aud longest ; tail moderate, broad, and even ; tarsi 

 much longer than the middle toe, slender, and covered in 

 front with divided broad scales ; toes four ; the three ante- 

 rior toes long and rather slender ; the outer toe longer than 

 the inner, and united at the base ; the hind toe short and 

 elevated ; the front of the head sometimes lobed, and the 

 wings sometimes armed with a spine. ^, 7 x , "^ 



557. Ohettusia Lateralis; Vaneiius Latemiis, 



Smith, Zool. S. A., PI. 23. 



FRONT of head white, with a brown bar extending, over the 

 vertex ; back of the neck, back, and rump, brown, tinged 

 and glossed with green ; wing-feathers black ; tail white, 



