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LOBIVANELLUS. 



^r^mm 



LOBIVANELLUS LOBATUS. 



LATHAM'S WATTLED LAPWING. 



Diagnosis. Lobivanellus halluce parvo : corpore subtus omnino albo : occipite nucMque nigris. 



Variations. The black collar on the hind neck is somewhat variable in size, but appears never to be 

 absent. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Tringa lobata, Latham, Index Orn. Suppl. p. lxv (1801). 



Vanellus lobatus {Lath.), Vieillot, N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 209 (1819). 



Vanellus novse-hollandiae, Stephens, Shaiv's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 516 (1819). 



Charadrius lobatus (Lath.),') T „ , ~ . , __ _„ ,-,onr/\ 



x " j- Wagler, Syst. Av. pp. 75, 76 (1827). 



Charadrius gallinaceus, J 



Vanellus gallinaceus (Wagler), Jardine & Selby, III. Orn. ii. pi. 84 (1829). 



Lobivanellus gallinaceus {Wagler), Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 33. 



Lobivanellus lobatus (Lath.), Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 9 (1842). 



Chettusia lobata (Lath.), 



Cbettusia gallinacea (Wagler) 



J- Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 541 (1847). 



Plates. — Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn. ii. pi. 84; Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 9. 

 Habits. — Gould, Handb. Birds of Australia, ii. p. 218. 



Eggs. — Bamsay, Ibis, 1867, pi. ix. fig. 2. Scarcely distinguishable from eggs of Vanellus 

 cristatus. 



