THE YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING. 375 
fields and grass-lands^ a few bits of liard clay being sometimes placed 
round them. In colour they are buff thickly blotched and spotted with 
blackish brown. 
Genus LOBIPLUVIA, Bonajp. 
722. LOBIPLUVIA MALABARICA, 
THE YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING. 
Charadrius malabaricus, Bodd. Tail. PL Enl. p. 53. Charadrius bilobus, 
Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 691. Sarciophorus bilobus, Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 649; 
Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 470 Bl. B. Burm. p. 153. Lobipluvia malabarica, 
Hiime, Nests and Eggs, p. 577 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 112 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 
p. 966 ; Parker, S. F. ix. p. 482 ; Himie, S. F. x. p. 238^ note. 
Description. — Male and female. Top of head and nape black_, bounded 
by a white border running round the nape from the posterior corner of 
the eye ; hind neck, back, scapulars and wing-coverts pale earth-brown, 
passing into a lighter or greyer hue over the fore neck, throat and chest ; 
chin, gorge and edge of brown pectoral region blackish ; upper tail-coverts, 
tail, under surface, under wing- and under tail-coverts, the tips of the 
secondary-coverts and base of secondaries, with the outer webs of some of 
the underlying tertials, white ; quills and a subterminal band on all but the 
two outer rectrices black, preceded on the central pair by a smoky wash. 
In examples not fully adult the black caudal band extends to the penulti- 
mate. [Legge.) 
Iris yellowish or grey, with a brown outer edge ; eyelid and wattles 
lemon-yellow ; bill black, greenish yellow at the base ; tibia and tarsus 
yellow ; feet dingy yellow ; claws black. (Legge.) 
Length II inches, tail 3, wing 8, tarsus 2*4, bill from gape 1*25. 
The Yellow-wattled Lapwing was procured at Thayetmyo by Mr. Blan- 
ford some years ago, and there is no other record of its occurrence in 
Burmah. 
It is met with over the whole of India and Ceylon. 
This Lapwing, according to Dr. Jerdon, frequents the drier parts of 
India : and this in some measure accounts for its having been found in the 
dry district of Thayetmyo and not elsewhere in Burmah. It associates in 
small flocks except at the breeding- season, which in India appears to be 
April and May. The eggs, four in number, are laid in a depression in the 
ground in waste plains. 
