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b. Cafut carunculA instructum. 
Head furnished with a wattle. 
GOA LAPWING. 
(Vanellus Goensis.) 
VA.yuscuSj capite collo remigihus Jasci6,que caudce nigris, linea 
longitudinali colli pectore ah domine fascia alarum basique cauda 
albis. 
Brown Lapwing, with the head_, neclc, quills, and band on the 
tail, black j a longitudinal stripe on the iieck, the breast, 
abdomen, stripe on the wings, and base of the tail, white. 
Tringa Goensis. Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 727* 7* 
Parra Goensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 700. 
Vanneau arme des Indes. Buff. Ois. 8. 64. 
Vanneau arme de Goa. Biff. PI. Enl. 8 O 7 . 
Goa Sandpiper. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. l65, 7* 
Latham thus notices this species t Length 
thirteen inches : beak dusky: head and neck black : 
before the eye, and round it, carunculated and 
red : from the back part of the eye a stripe of 
white, passing down on each side the neck, and 
communicating with the breast, which, as well as 
the under parts of the body, is white : the back and 
wing-coverts are rufous brown : greater coverts 
white : quills black : the base of the tail for one- 
third is white, the middle black, and the end 
brown : legs yellow : it has four toes, all of mo- 
derate length : on the fore-part of the wing, near 
the joint, is a sharp sliort spur.” This bird in- 
habits Goa. 
