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cry has been variously rendered as, " Bid he do it, Pity to do it, 

 Dick did you do it? In the South of India it is recorded to sleep 

 on its back with its legs upwards, and the Indian proverb ' Titihri 

 se asmart thama jaega, &c.,' ' can the Pee-wit support the Heavens,' 

 is applied to a man who undertakes some task far above his 

 strength. 



V. tricolor, Horsf., (cucullatus, Temm.) is a nearly allied race 

 from Java, &c. 



Two species from Australia and two from Africa are recorded. 

 The former two, L. lobatus and L. personatus have very large 

 yellow wattles. 



The next group barely differs, but there is no hind toe, and in 

 all the lappets and nude parts are yellow ; this group is much 

 developed in Africa. 



Gen. Sarciophortjs, Strickland. 



Char. — Bill more slender than in the last, the tip scarcely ele- 

 vated ; wattles yellow ; hind toe wanting ; a tubercle at the 

 shoulder ; wings very pointed, 1st quill nearly as long as the 2nd, 

 slightly longer than the 3rd. 



The following Indian species has been separated from the 

 African ones as a minor group by Bonaparte under the name 

 Lobipluvia. 



856. Sarciophorus bilobus, Gmelin. 



Charadrius, apud Gmelin — PL Enl. 880 — Blyth, Cat. 1552 — 

 Sykes, Cat. 208— Jerdon, Cat. 3Qi—Zirdi, H. — Chitawa, Tel. — 

 Jithiri in North-western Provinces — Al-kati, Tarn. 



The Yellow-wattled Lapwing. 



Descr. — Head and nape black ; rest of the upper plumage, in- 

 cluding wing-coverts and tertiaries, chin, throat, and upper part of 

 breast, pale ashy brown ; a white streak from behind the eye 

 bordering the black head all round; winglet and primaries black; 

 secondaries white at their base, brownish black for the greater part 

 of their length, the white increasing in extent towards the last, 

 and with the ti s of the greater wing-coverts forming a not very 

 conspicuous white wing-band ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail white 



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