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LOBIVANELLUS. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Both this species and its northern ally are probably the result of a western emigration 

 of some of the ancestors of L. malabaricus. 



The Dark-flanked Wattled Lapwing appears to be confined to Africa south of the 

 Equator. I have an example from Angola collected by Anchieta ; Monteiro found it in 

 Benguela (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 90) ; I have skins from Damara-Land collected by 

 Andersson ; in the Cape Colony it is recorded by Layard from Port Elizabeth, and Ayres 

 met with it in the Transvaal (Ibis, 1873, p. 283). My friend Graham Hutchinson found 

 it in Swasiland, sometimes in long grass, but more often among the mimosa-thorn bushes 

 on the sandy plains ; he remarked its constant habit of bowing its head when not running 

 about. Kirk records it from the Zambesi (Ibis, 1864, p. 331), where it has since been 

 found by Holub (Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 240) ; and Bohra obtained it at Gonda west of 

 Zanzibar (Journ. Orn. 1885, p. 39). 



Diagnosis. 



LOBIVANELLUS MELANOCEPHALUS. 



RUPP ELL'S WATTLED LAPWING. 



Lobivanellus halluce nullo : rectricum fascia nigra, subterminali angusta (haud 25 milhm.). 



Variations. N local races of this species are known. 



