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b. Caput caruncula instructwmo 

 b. Head furnished with a wattle. 



GOA LAPWING. 



(Vanellus Goensis.) 



Va. JuscuSy capite coUo remigihus fasci6,que Caudce nigrk, linea 

 longitudinali colli pectctre ahdomine fascia alarum basique caudce 

 albis. 



Brown Lapwing, with the head, neck, quills, and band on the 

 tail, black 5 a longitudinal stripe on the neck, the t)reast, 

 abdomen, stripe on the wings, and base of the tail, white. 



Tringa Goensis. Lath, Ind, Orn. 2. 727. 7. 



Parra Goensis. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. yoQ. 



Vanneau arme des Indes. Buff. Ois. 8. 64. 



Vanneau arme de Goa. Biiff. PI. Bnl. 8O7. 



Goa Sandpiper. Lath. Gen, Syn. 5. l65. 7* 



Latham thus noti<jes this species : Length 

 thirteen inches : beak dusky: head and iieck black : 

 before the eye, and round it, carunculated and 

 red : from the back part of the eye a stripe of 

 white, passing down on each side the neck, and 

 communicating with the breast, which, as well as 

 the under parts of the body, is white : the back and 

 wing- coverts are rufous brown : greater coverts 

 white : quills black : the base of the tail for one- 

 third is white, the middle black, and the end 

 brown : legs yellow : it has four toes, all of mo- 

 derate length : on the fore-part of the wing, near 

 the joint, is a sliarp short spur." This bird in- 

 habits Goa. 



