VANELLUS LATERALIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XXIII. (Male.) 
V cervice, dorso, uropygio, tertiariis et scapularibus fusco-brunneis viridi-metallico delicate intinctis ; 
alarum tectricibus, peetore et abdomine columbinis ; tegminibus tibiarum griseo-brunneis ; fronte, 
mento, pogoniis primariorum internis versil9 basin, secundariis prseter apices, cauda (fascia penul- 
tima excepta), lateribus, tectricibus alarum internis, tibiis, caudee tectricibus, crissoque albis ; gula, 
primariis nisi ad basin intemam, secundariis ad apices, et fascia lata cauda; penultima nigris ; 
collo laterali-inferiore nigrescente, plumis albido late marginatis : caruncula ante oculos flava, lobulo 
superiori rubente i rostro tibiisque viridi-flavis, illo apice nigro : calcari carpali et unguibus nigris. 
Longitcdo 13 un. 6 lin. 
Colour.— Front of the head white with a brown margin spreading over 
the vertex ; back of neck, interscapulars, back, rump, scapularies and 
tertiary quill feathers wood brown tinged and glossed with metallic green, 
the feathers on the back of the neck iaintly streaked with biown. Primaiy 
quill feathers (except the base of the inner webs) and the tips of the 
secondaries pitch black ; remainder of these last and the base of inner webs 
of primaries white. Tail feathers white on both aspects, except a very broad 
penultimate band of glossy black ; the tips of the tw r o centre feathers wood 
brown ; chin white ; throat black ; feathers of the under and lateral parts of 
the neck blackish brown broadly margined with dirty white ; breast and 
abdomen dove colour ; flanks and femoral coverts dark grey brown, obsoletely 
fringed with grey ; upper half of inner surface of w ings, thighs, vent and 
under tail coverts white ; inferior lobe of ante-ocular caruncle yellow, the 
superior lobule orange-red. Bill and legs greenish, the former broadly tipt 
with pitch black; carpal spur and claws blackish. 
Form.— Body moderately robust; bill long and rather thick at the base ; 
nasal fossa well marked and terminating at the commencement of the last 
r ■ i f the U pper mandible ; nostrils linear, and situated about half way 
between the base and the termination of the fossa ; sides of the head rn 
7 . „f the eve ornamented with a membranous caruncle, which is either 
entiiVor slightly bilobate ; the portion above a line drawn from the eye to the 
entne or sli y forms a lobe , when a division exists, is broader 
base of the b , . upper extremity is obtusely pointed ; the 
than Ae r ^“ , ^ i ^ r iB m ; re than twice the length of the upper, considerably 
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flalheS are of equal length and the longest, the «rs, 
