VANELLUS GALINACEUS, nobis, 



Wattled Lajmiing. 



PLATE LXXXIV. 



V. rostro flavo duabus carunculis ante oculos triangulis, alis calcaratis, vertice 

 nigro, torque colli albo, corpore supra cinereo-olivaceo, infra albo, remigibus 

 nigris, cauda alba, fascia lata, nigra, pedibus coccineis. 



Tringa lobata ? Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. p. 65. 

 Vanellus Novae Hollandise? Steph. v. 11. p. 516. 

 Charadrius gallinaceus, Wagler, Systema Avium. 



This curious species is a native of New Holland, and we purchased the 

 specimen from which our figure is taken, together with a large and valu- 

 able assortment of other birds from that interesting country, from a gen- 

 tleman * on his return to England. In appearance, it closely resembles 

 birds of the genus Pluvianus, an African group of the Charadriadce ; but 

 as it possesses a small hinder toe, of which that genus is entirely destitute, 

 we have placed it provisionally among the Lapwings, or genus Vanellus of 

 later writers, though it is more than probable that it will, with a few others, 

 form a distinct group, intermediate between the true Lapwings, of which 

 Vanellus cristatus is the type, and the Pluvians, or those which possess only 

 three toes. This species appears to be the same as that described by La- 

 tham under the title of Tringa lobata, as a native of New Holland, though 

 the dimensions he gives of its size are greatly superior to the one before 

 us : he states it as at least nineteen inches in length, whereas ours barely 

 exceeds fourteen. He adds, that it is sometimes met with in the flats 

 going to Paramatta, but is not a common bird. The bill is lfths in 

 length, of a bright primrose-yellow ; on each side, from the anterior part 

 of the exterior orbit of the eye, projecting forwards, arises a caruncle or 

 wattle, of a bright yellow colour, and of a triangular form. The crown 



* Mr Harper, now resident in New Holland. 



