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LOBIVANELLIJS. 



LOBIVANELLUS LOBATUS. 



LATHAM'S WATTLED LAPWING. 

 Diagnosis. Lobivanellus halluce parvo : corpora subtis omnino albo : occipite nuchAque iiigris. 



Variations. Xhe black collar on the hind neck is somewhat variable in size, but appears never to be 

 absent. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Tringa lobata, Latham, Index Orn. Suppl. p. Ixv (1801). 



Vanellus lobatus (Lath.), Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 209 (1819). 



Vanellus novse-hoUandisej Stephens, Shawns Gen. Zool. xi. p. 516 (1819). 



Charadrius lobatus (iyO^A.),") jjr i a ^ a wr ;-^/tdo«\ 



„. ^ " \Wagler, Syst. Av.^^.75,76[19,27). 



Charadrius gallinaceus, J 



Vanellus gallinaceus (Wagler), Jar dine & Selby, III. Orn. ii. pi. 84 (1829). 

 Lobivanellus gallinaceus {Wagler), Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 33. 

 Lobivanellus lobatus {Lath.), Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 9 (1842) . 

 Chettusia lobata {Lath.), -> 



Cbettusia gallinacea {Wagler),} ^'""^Z. Genera of Birds, iii. p. 541 (1847). 



Plates.— Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn. ii. pi. 84; Gould, Birds of Anstralia, vi. pi. 9. 

 Habits. — Gould, Handb. Birds of Australia, ii. p. 218. 



Eggs. — Eamsay, Ibis, 1867, pi. ix. fig. 2. Scarcely distinguishable from eggs of Vanellus 

 cristatus. 



