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group, while its voice, habits, and flight are unmistake- 

 ably those of a Lapwing. In voice and flight it resembles 

 Hoplopterus. It is found usually in small flocks on 

 grassy meadows throughout the highlands, ascending 

 above 10,000 feet. I never met with it below about 

 7,000 feet ; indeed the small meadows along the banks 

 of streams in which it is generally seen are not common 

 below the temperate region in Abyssinia. 



249. Sarciophorus tectus (Bodd). 



Charadrius pileatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 691. 

 Sarciophorus pileatus, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 408. 



Iris yellow, with a dusky circle round the pupil ; bill 

 and small wattle dull crimson ; tip of bill dusky ; legs 

 purplish red. 



This is a lowland form, chiefly confined to the coast 

 country, but I met with it in the Anseba valley. 



250. Lobivanellus melanocephalus, Eiipp. 



Eiippell, Syst. Uebers. p. 115, t. xliv. 



Iris grey, darker towards the pupil ; skin round the 

 eyes orange, paler externally ; bill black ; wattle and 

 fleshy portion of base of upper mandible pale lemon 

 yeUow ; legs yellow. 



This species of Plover was only seen on the higher 

 portion of the Dalanta and Wadela plateaux, above 10,000 

 feet elevation. Eiippell met with it on the mountains 

 of Simen in April, when I saw it. It was in large 

 flocks, which were very wary. It is a noisy bird, with 

 a shrill call like " che-wip." The following measurements 

 were taken in the flesh : — Length 13-^ in., extent 30, 



