LOBIVANELLUS. 



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LOBIVANELLUS CUCULLATUS. 



BLACK-THIGHEB WATTLED LAPWING. 

 LOBIVANELLUS abdoinine nuch^que nigris : tectricibus baud albo terminatis. 



Diagnosis. 



No local races of this species are known. 



Variations. 



Vanellus tricolor, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 186 (1820, nee Vieillot, 1818) . 

 Cbaradrius macropterus, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 77 (1827). 

 Vanellus cucuUatus, Temminck^, PL Col. no. 505 (1830). 



Lobivanellusj*''"'''!"'" ^^°'''^^^'^^'\ Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 33. 

 "^ cucullatus ( Temm.) , J 



Cbettusia|°'^''™P*^''^^[5^^^"M G^«y, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 541 (1847). 

 <- cucullatus {Temm.),) ^' J > f \ i 



Sj-nonj'my. 



Plates.— Temm. PI. Col. no. 505. 

 Habits. — Undescribed. 

 Eggs. — Unknown . 



Literature. 



' It is curious that Temminck did not name this bird until 1830, inasmuch as he accurately described it 

 in 1807 (Cat. Syst. Cab. d'Orn. pp. 172, 260) under the title of " Le grand Vanneau arme a lambeaux rouges de 

 Temate." 



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