ISO 



LOBIVANELLUS. 



(Half natural size.) 

 L. aironuchalis. L. indicus. 



LOBIVANELLUS INDICUS ATRONU CH A L I S. 



BLYTH'S WATTLED LAPWING. 



Diagnosis. Lobivanellus indicus nucha nigra. 



Variations. Intermediate forms between the eastern and western races of this species are frequently 

 met with. 



Synonymy. Sarcogramma atrogularis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. sxxi. p. 345 (1862). 



Lobivanellus atronuchalis, Jerdon, Birds of India, iii. p. 648 (1864). 



Literature. Plates. — Unfigured. 



Habits. — Oates, Birds of British Burmah, ii. p. 374. 



Eggs. — Hume, Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, p. 576. Undistinguishable from eggs of L. indicus. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

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Allies. 



Blyth's Wattled Lapwing when adult may be distinguished from the Bronze-winged 

 Wattled Lapwing by its having the neck ornamented with a white collar. It is not known 

 that young in first plumage of the two forms differ. 



It is a resident in Burmah and Cochin China. 



Blyth's Wattled Lapwing is very closely related to the Bronze-winged Wattled 

 Lapwing (L. indicus), and to the Black-breasted Wattled Lapwing (L. pectoralis). In all 

 three species the wattles on the lores are small, the crown and upper breast are black, and the 

 wing-coverts are more or less bronzed with purple, each of the three characters showing 

 relationship with Vanellus. 





