LOBIVANELLUS INDICUS. 



(RED- WATTLED LAPWING.) 



Le Vanneau arme des Indes, Buffon, Hist. Nat. des Ois. viii. p. 64 (1781). 



Le Vanneau arme de Goa, D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 807. 



Goa Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 165 (1785). 



Tringa indica, Bodd. Tabl. d. PI. Enl. p. 50 (1783). 



Parra goensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 706 (1788). 



Tringa goensis (Gmel.), Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 727 (1790). 



Vanellus goensis (Gmel.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxxv. p. 208 (1819). 



Charadrius atrogularis, Wagl. Syst. Av., Charadr. no. 49 (1827). 



Lobivanellus goensis (Gmel.), Strickland, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33. 



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



Sarcogrammus goensis (Gmel.), Beichenb. Grail, p. xviii (1852). 



Lobivanellus indicus (Bodd.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 68 (1865). 



Chettusia goensis (Gmel.), Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 203. 



Hoploplerus spinosus (nee Linn.), Radde, Ornis, 1889, p. 109. 



Sarcogrammus indicus (Bodd.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 149 (1896). 



Titai, Titi, Tituri, Titiri, in different parts of India ; Yennepa chitawa, Telugu (Jerdon) ; 

 Verklikker, Dutch in Ceylon ; Al-kati, Ceylonese Tamils, lit. " Man pointer " ; Kiralla, 

 Kibulla, Sinhalese (Legge). 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 807 ; Gould, Cent, of Himalayan B. pi. lxxviii. ; Reichenbach, Grallae, 

 Taf. ci. fig. 168, Taf. cii. fig. 1050. 



Ad. capite, collo et pectore nigris : stria, magna postoculari alba : dorso antico cinereo-albo : corpore supra 

 tectricibusque alarum fuseo-cinereis viridi nitentibus, tectricibus alarum medianis rubro-purpureo 

 nitentibus : supracaudalibus albis : remigibus ad basin albis et in parte reliquo nigris, secundariis 

 magis albis, intimis fere omnino albis : tectricibus alarum majoribus albis et ad basin cinereis : cauda 

 ad basin alba, medialiter nigra, et albo terminate, rectricibus medianis cervino-cinereo notatis et 

 apicatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo : rostro ad basin coccineo, in parte apicali nigro : membrana 

 lororum et marginibus palpebrarum coccineis : pedibus flavis, unguibus nigris : iride coccineiL 



Adult Male (Transcaspia, July 9th). Head, neck, and breast deep black; a white patch behind and rather 

 below the eye covering the aural region ; fore part of the back greyish white ; rest of the upper parts 

 brownish grey glossed with green, except on the median coverts, which are richly glossed with reddish 

 purple ; upper tail-coverts white ; quills black, with the base white, this colour increasing on the 

 secondaries until the innermost are nearly pure white ; larger wing-coverts grey at the base and 

 broadly tipped with white ; tail white at the base, then black, and broadly terminated with white, the 



