VANELLUS LATERALIS.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate XXIH. (Male.) 



V. cervice, dorso, iiropygio, tertiariis et scapularibus fusco-brunneis viridi-metallico delicate intinctis ; 

 alarum tectricibus, pcctore et abdomine columbiiiis ; tegminibus tibiarum griseo-brunneis ; fronte, 

 mento, pogoniis priniariorum intcrnis versils basin, secundariis pifeter apices, cauda (fascia penul- 

 tima exceptit), lateribus, tectricibus alarum internis, tibiis, caudte tectricibus, crissorpie albis ; gula, 

 primariis nisi ad basin iuteniam, secundariis ad apices, et fascia lata caudae penultinia nigris ; 

 collo laterali-inferiore nigrescente, plumis albido late marginatis : caruncula ante oculos flava, lobulo 

 superiori rubente : rostro tibiisqno viridi-flavis, illo apice nigro : calcari carpali et unguibus nigris. 



Lo.NGiTUDo 13 un. 6' lin. 



Colour. — Front of the head white with a brown margin spreading over 

 the vertex ; back of neck, interscapulars, back, rump, scapularies and 

 tertiary quill feathers wood brown tinged and glossed with metallic green, 

 the feathers on the back of the neck faintly streaked with brown. Primary 

 quill feathers (except the base of the inner webs) and the tips of the 

 secondaries pitch black ; remainder of these last and the base of inner webs 

 of primaries white. Tail feathers white on both aspects, except a very broad 

 penultimate band of glossy black ; the tips of the two centre feathers wood 

 brown ; chin white ; throat black ; feathers of the under and lateral parts of 

 the neck blackish brown broadly margined with dirty white ; breast and 

 abdomen dove colour ; flanks and femoral coverts dark grey brown, obsoleteiy 

 fringed with grey ; upper half of inner surface of wings, thighs, vent and 

 under tail coverts white ; inferior lobe of ante-ocular caruncle yellow, the 

 superior lobule orange-red. Bill and legs greenish, the former broadly tipt 

 with pitch black; carpal spur and claws blackish. 



Form. — Body moderately robust ; bill long and rather thick at the base ; 

 nasal fossa well marked and terminating at the commencement of the last 

 third of the upper mandible ; nostrils linear, and situated about half way 

 between the base and the termination of the fossa ; sides of the head, in 

 front of the eye, ornamented with a membranous caruncle, which is either 

 entire or slightly bilobate ; the portion above a line drawn from the eye to the 

 base of the bill, and which forms a lobe, when a division exists, is broader 

 than the remaining portion, and its upper extremity is obtusely pointed ; the 

 portion below the line is more than twice the length of the upper, considerably 

 narrower, obtuse at the point, and somewhat of a falciform shape. Wings, 

 when folded, reach to the tip of the tail, or even slightly beyond it; the 

 second and third quill feathers are of equal length and the longest, the first 



