LOBIVANELLTJS. 197 



LOBIVANELLUS TECTUS. 



CBE8TED WATTLED LAPWING. 



LoBivANELLUS halluce nullo : primariarum tectricibus albis : remigibus omnibus ad basin albis, ad Diagnosis. 

 termimun nigris. 



Examples from East and West Africa appear to be identical. Variations. 



Charadrius tectus, Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. no. 834, p. 51 (1783). Synonymy. 



Charadrius pileatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 691 (1788). 



Sarciophorus pileatus {Gmel.), Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 33. 



Hoplopterus tectus [Bodd.), Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 542 (1847). 



Hoplopterus pileatus (Gmel.), Reichenbach, Spec. Orn. pi. xcix. fig. 702 (1848). 



Lobivanellus pileatus {Gmel.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bos, Cursores, p. 65 (1865). 



Sarciophorus tectus {Bodd.), Blanford, Geol. Sf Zool. Abyss, p. 430 (1870). 



Chettusia pileata {Gmel.), Finsch, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1872, p. 32. 



Sarciophorus latifrons, Reichenow, Journ. Orn. 1881, p. 334. 



Plates. — Daub. PI. Enl. no. 834. Literature. 



Habits.— Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1008. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



The Crested Wattled Lapwing differs from all its congeners, not only in having a well- 



