LOBIVANELLUS. 



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The Black-breasted Wattled Lapwing is the only species of the genus which combines Specific cha- 

 the three characters of throat white, hind toe absent, spur none; but as the young in first '■^'''^'''■ 

 plumage of some of its allies have white throats, it is necessary to add a dark subterminal 

 band across the median and greater wing-coverts. 



It inhabits the whole of South-east Australia and Tasmania. It is not known to be Geographi- 



migratory. oal distribu- 



y tion. 



It appears to be the Australian representative of the Bronze-winged Wattled Lapwing. 



LOBIVANELLUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 



BdHM'8 WATTLED LAPWING. (Plate IX.) 



LOBIVANELLUS halluce nuUo : rectricibus lateralibus albis : pedibus rubris. 



Diagnosis. 



Only three examples of this species are known. 



Variations. 



Lobivanellus superciliosus, Reichenow, Journ. Orn. 1886, p. 116. 

 Sarciophorus superciliosus (Reich.), Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 418. 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Reichenow, Journ. Orn. 1886, pi. iii. fig. 2 (immature). 

 Habits. — Undescribed. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Literature. 



Bohm's Wattled Lapwing was only known from a single immature example from 

 Central Africa in the Berlin Museum, until what appear to be the fully adult birds were 

 obtained near the Camaroon Mountains. 



In adult plumage it resembles L. malabaricus very closely. As in that species the gpecitic 

 hind toe is absent, and the dark terminal band across the tail is obsolete on the outer feather characters. 

 on each side. It may, however, be at once distinguished from its ally by the colour of" its 

 legs and feet, which are dark red instead of greenish yellow, and by the colour of the 

 forehead and the pectoral band, which are rusty brown in the young and chestnut-red in 

 the adult. 



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