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other instances of its capture in this division of the world, 
viz. one in France, and the other in Austria. On this ac- 
count the specific name of Isabellinus, given toit by MEYER, 
has been preferred to that of Ewropeus, so inadvertently 
imposed by Latuam. Nothing is yet known respecting its 
particular habits, its food, or the propagation of the species. 
Piate $3 **, represents this bird of the natural size, from 
the specimen above alluded to. 
Bill three quarters of an inch long, black, and arched to- 
wards the tip. Irides pale yellowish-grey. Forehead 
and crown of the head pale buff-orange, passing towards 
the occiput into ash-grey, below which backwards is a 
triangular spot of black. Over each eye, and passing 
round the hind part of the head (below the black spot), 
is a band of pure white. From the posterior angle of 
the eye is a streak of black. Throat and chin pale 
reddish-white. The whole of the body sienna-yellow, 
tinged with ash-grey, palest beneath. Greater quills 
brownish-black ; outer tail-feathers having a small 
dusky spot near their tips. Legs long, with the tibiz 
naked for an inch above the tarsal jomt. Toes short ; 
the outer united to the middle toe by a rather broad 
membrane, the inner toe by a smaller one. Claw of the 
middle toe pectinated ; a peculiarity belonging also to 
all the other species. 
Genus VANELLUS, Briss. LAPWING. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill shorter than the head, strait, slightly compressed ; 
the points of both mandibles horny and hard, rather swollen 
and convex, the edges bent inwards; nasal groove wide, and 
reaching as far as the horny tip. The part of the culmen 
that divides the nostrils lower than the tip of the bill. 'To- 
mia of both mandibles, as far as the tip, equal. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
