220 ON A NEW SPECIES OF TR1BURA (DUMETICOLA.) 



855.— Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd. 



The Red Wattled Lapwing is rare owing to the scarcity of 

 water. I have only noted two pairs, and have found but one 

 nest, similar in all respects to those found in India ; it contained 

 four eggs, hard set. 



This was on the 10th May. 



This is but a short list. Doubtless many other species would 

 be found to breed here, were the neighbourhood to be thoroughly 

 explored ; but it must be remembered that such collections 

 as 1 have succeeded in making were got together under 

 adverse conditions. That I worked in a time of war, when 

 my legitimate and far more important duties left me but scant 

 leisure, and when my nest-hunting rambles were rigidly limit- 

 ed by necessary camp regulations. 



<§n a new species of W rihura (fmnetkota). 



By Eugene W. Oates. 



And note on the same, 

 By W. Edwin Brooks. 



Dumeticola intermedia, Sp. Nov. 



Description, Male. — Whole upper plumage olive-brown, tinged 

 with rufescent, and more strongly so on crown of head, wings, 

 and tail ; tail indistinctly cross rayed in most examples, and 

 very conspicuously so in some ; a distinct ■ greyish white 

 supercilium ; chin, throat, and ceutre of abdomen dull white ; 

 breast pale ochraceous brown, becoming darker on the flanks ; 

 under tail-coverts pale brownish, broadly edged and tipped 

 with dull white ; under wing-coverts bright pale brownish 

 white ; tail feathers, when perfect, with light greyish brown 

 tips, not abrupt and well defined as in Locustella certhiola, but 

 blending into the colour of the tail. 



Five other examples, all males,, agree with the above descrip- 

 tion. Two other males differ only in having a few small, faint 

 and rather cloudy brown spots on the lower throat ; a ninth 

 male has similar throat spots, but the whole lower plumage is 

 suffused with dull buffy yellow ; the supercilium is also of this 

 colour. 



The tenth, a female, has chin, throat, breast, and centre of 

 abdomen, a uniform dull buffy yellow ; supercilium, cheeks, 



