346 CHAEADBIID^ LOBIVANBLLUS 



hind toe present, though very small; outer and middle toes con- 

 nected by a basal web. 



This genus coutains four species, two of which are found in 

 Africa and two in Australasia ; only one of these comes within the 

 limits of our fauna. 



716. Lobivanellus lateralis. Wattled Plover. 



Vanellus lateralis, Smith, III. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves pi. 23 (1889). 



Lobivanellus senegalensis {nee Linn.), KirJc, Ibis, 1864, p. 331. 



Chettusia lateralis, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 292 (1867) ; BucJcley, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 887. 



Lobivanellus lateralis, Gurneij, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 267 

 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 288 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 368 [Mashona- 

 land] ; Holtib Sr Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 240 (1882) ; Seebohm, Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadr. p. 198, with fig. (1888) ; Slia/rpe, Oat. B. M. xxiv, 

 p. 144 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. p. 187 (1896) ; Sowerhy, Ibis, 1898, 

 p. 575 ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 264 ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 452 ; 

 Beichenoiv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 194 (1900). 



Lobivanellus senegalus (neo Linn.), Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 

 pp. 666, 855 (1884). 



" Querri-querri " of Mashonas (Sowerby). 



Description. Adult Male. — A double triangular wattle between 

 the eye and the beak ; forehead and fore part of the crown white ; 

 eyebrow and hind crown very dark brown, becoming lighter on the 

 nape and neck, where the feathers are dark-centred; back brown, 

 with an olive tinge, becoming paler on the wing-coverts, the tips of 

 which are white, forming a very conspicuous wing bar ; wing-quills, 

 primary coverts and bastard wing black, the bases of the primaries 

 white, which colour increases until only the distal third of the 

 secondaries are black ; upper tail-coverts and tail white, with a 

 broad subterminal black bar to the latter ; chin white, throat black ; 

 sides of the face and rest of the neck whitish streaked with dusky ; 

 breast olive-brown, like the back, below which is a transverse band 

 of black, best developed on the flanks ; under tail-coverts, under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



Iris steel-grey, surrounded by a ring of tawny-brown, and again 

 by a ring of black ; bill bright gamboge yellow, tips black ; upper 

 portion of wattle bright brick-red, under portion and eyelid gamboge 

 yellow ; tarsi and feet pale greenish-yellow ; a pointed conical black 

 spur on the angle of the wing ; a small hind toe present. 



Length about 13-5 ; wing 9-5 ; tail 4-0 ; tarsus 3-25 ; culmen l-S ; 



