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127. Lobivanellus Indicus, Bodd. — The Indian Lapwing, 

 Bed- wattled Lapwing ; Kibulla, Sink, Lobivanellus Goensis,. 

 Gmelin ; Layard, Annals Natural History, volume 14, page 

 109; Kelaart, Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica, page 132. 



Abundant throughout all the low-country both in the maritime 

 districts and at some distance inland, wherever there are open 

 lands, swamps, tanks, paddy fields, &c. Less plentiful in tha 

 south-west, perhaps, than in other districts. In the south-east 

 frequents borders of tanks and the flat lands around the salt pans. 



128- JEdicnemus crepitans, Temm.— The Stone Plover. 

 Norfolk Plover. 44 Thick-knee." — Layard, Annals Natural 

 History, 1854, volume 14, page 108 ; omitted from Kelaart, 

 Prodromus Faunae Zeylanica. 



Northern, Western, and Eastern Provinces, and south-eastern dis- 

 tricts. Common on both coasts in the north, being numerous 

 about Trincomalee. In the south-east it is plentiful at Kirinda 

 and all that neighbourhood; in the west it is scarce, occurring 

 in the Cinnamon Gardens during the first part of the north-east 

 monsoon. I have never met with it in the Galle district ; it 

 appears to be migratory to those parts of the south which it 

 frequents. 



129. Strepsilas interpres, Linn. — The Turnstone.— Lay- 

 ard, Annals Natural History, 1854, volume 14, page 110; 

 Cinclus Interpres, Linn. — Kelaart, Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica, 

 page 133. 



Migratory; very local in its distribution, and our rarest wader*. 

 Layard records it, loc. cit., at Point Pedro in the month of January.. 

 Occurs down the north-west coast, and probably on the salt lakes 

 and lagoons of the Mullaitlivu and Trincomalee districts. It i& 

 absent from the south-west, and more numerous, I am of opinion, 

 in the south-east than elsewhere; I found it ia that district in 

 pairs, frequenting the shores of the salt lagoons. 



130. Gallinago stenura, Temm. — The Pin-tailed Snipe. 

 Indian Snipe. Kas-watua, Sink. — Layard, Annals Natural 

 History, 1854, volume 14, page 266; Kelaart, Prodromus Faunae 

 Zeylanica, page 135. 



Found throughout the Island up to an elevation of 3,000 feet, beyond 

 which a few stray to the upper hills. Arrives in the Western 

 Province as early as the 20th September, and remains as late in 

 the Southern Province as the 6th of May; these are of course 

 only individual instances. Especially numerous in the Kurune- 

 gala district, at Tamblegam in the north-east, about some of the 

 tanks in the Eastern Province, and at Udugama in the south 

 western forest district. 



