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A. — Size the same as the last. Orbits yellow; irides red ; head 

 and neck dove-colour ; back and wings sooty brown ; second quills 

 white, forming a band across the wing; quills black, two or three 

 of the inner ones have some white on the inner margins ; belly, 

 rump, beneath the wing, and vent, white ; tail white, with a black 

 band across each feather, but the outer one has only a spot on the 

 inner web ; at the bend of the wing a knob, or spur, as in the last ; 

 as also the carunculated kind of wattle on each side of the bill at 

 the base. 



Inhabits India : called at Hindustan, Chuppoun. 



71.— BILOBATE SANDPIPER. 



Charadrius bilobus, Ind. Orn. ii. 750. Gm. Lin. i. 691. 

 Vanellus tricolor, Lin. Trans, viii. 186. 

 Pluvier a lambeaux, Buf. viii. 102. PI. enl. 880. 

 Wattled Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 216. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill yellow, tip dusky ; 

 tongue pointed ; on the forehead a naked yellow skin, covering the 

 base of the bill, not reaching the eyes, but hanging on each side in 

 a pointed wattle; crown of the head, above the eyes, black; through 

 the eye, under the black, a streak of white ; neck and body above 

 yellowish grey, deeper on the back ; beneath from the breast white ; 

 across the wing coverts an oblique band of white ; quills black ; two 

 middle tail feathers like the back, the rest white, with a broad bar 

 of black near the end of all, and the tips are white ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits the Coast of Malabar, and approaches near to the 

 Senegal Sandpiper, for the chief difference is that of wanting the 

 hind toe, and the crown not being black ; but this is not singular, 

 as individuals of the Grey Plover, differ in the circumstance of the 



