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LOBIVANELLUS. 



Synonymy. 



black on the throat or the white on the crown, though in every other respect they appear 

 to be adult. 



1 Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. pp. 205, 209 (1819). 

 2.) > J 



Vanellus senegalensis armatus, Brissmi, Orn. v. p. Ill (1760). 



Parra senegalla, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 259 (1766). 



Tringa senegalla {Linn.), Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 728 (1790). 



Vanellus albicapillus, 



Vanellus senegallus (Linn!) , 



Vanellus senegalensis (Briss.), Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 515 (1819). 



Charadrius albicapillus (Vieill.), Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 77 (1827). 



Vanellus strigilatus, Swainson, Birds W. Africa, ii. p. 241 (1837). 



Lobivanellus senegalus [Linn.), ") 



T , . ,, ,. . ... , TT . ... . j- Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 33. 



Lobivanellus albicapillus ( Vieill.), j 



Chettusia albicapilla (Vieill?),-) 



™ . ii /r- \ T Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 541 (1847). 



(Jnettusia senegalla [Linn.), J 



Literature. Plates. — Swainson, Birds West Africa, pi. xxvii. ; Daub. PI. Enl. no. 362. 



Habits. — Sharpe, Layard's Birds of South Africa, p. 666. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Plumage of 

 young. 



The Grey-flanked Wattled Lapwing is a northern race of the Dark-flanked Wattled 

 Lapwing, and belongs to the group of species which are not only furnished with largely 

 developed wattles, but also with spurs and hind toes. Prom the other species of the group 

 its white forehead is, when adult, a sufficient distinction ; and from its southern ally it 

 may be distinguished either by the absence of the black on the flanks or by the colour of 

 its outermost secondaries, which are white with the terminal two thirds black. 



It inhabits the Ethiopian Region north of the Equator. I have skins from Senegambia, 

 the Gold Coast (Ussher), Nubia, and Abyssinia ; Hartert obtained it on the Chadda River, 

 an eastern tributary of the Niger (Journ. Orn. 1886, p. 609); and Heuglin records it 

 from Kordofan and the valley of the White Nile. 



Some ornithologists have supposed it to be the young of L. lateralis, but the difference 

 between the amount of black and white on the secondaries in the two species is conclusive 

 evidence that this is not the case. The young of L. senegalensis differ from the adult in 

 having no black on the chin and upper throat, and in having neither black nor white on 

 the forehead and crown. 



It is nearest allied to L. lateralis, but is quite distinct from that species, though many 

 ornithologists have erroneously united them. 



