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Genus LOBIVANELLUS. 



Tringa apud Bodd. Tabl. cles PL Enl. p. 50 (1783). 



Parra apud Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 706 (1788). 



Vanellus apud Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxxv. p. 208 (1819). 



Charadrins apud Wagler, Syst. Av., Charadr. no. 49 (1827). 



Lobivanellus, Strickland, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33. Type L. indicus. 



Chettusia apud Gray, Genera of B. iii. p. 541 (1847). 



Sarcogrammus, Peichenbaeh, Natxirl. Syst. Vogel, p. xviii. Type L. indicus (1852). 



Tylibyx, id. ut supra. Type L. melanocephalus (1852). 



Tee present genus is represented in Asia, Africa, and Australia, and is found only in the 

 extreme eastern portion of the western Palaaarctic area. 



Particulars are given in the following article respecting habits and nidification, in which the 

 type species and the other members of the genus do not appear to differ. 



Lobivanellus indicus, the type of the genus, has the bill straight, about as long as the head, 

 rather stout at the base and tapering towards the point, straight to the end of the nasal sinus, 

 then slightly raised and decurved to the tip, which is narrow and rounded ; gape-line straight ; 

 nasal sinus extending over more than two thirds of the length of the bill ; nostrils linear, 

 lateral, subbasal ; wings long, the first primary shorter than the third, the second longest ; at 

 the carpus a horny tubercle, which is sometimes developed into a spur ; a lappet of nude skin at 

 the base of the bill in front of the eye ; tail long, nearly even ; legs long, slender, the tarsus 

 anteriorly scutellate, the tibia bare for about half its length ; toes moderately long, the hind toe 

 small ; claws rather slender, slightly curved, rather obtuse. 



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