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STRIPE-THROATED LAPWING. 
Vanellus strigilatus , Swains. 
PLATE XXVII. 
Bill with a pendent lobe ; forehead white ; crown, sides of 
the head, throat, and breast, marked with longitudinal black 
stripes ; feet four-toed. 
Vanellus albicapillus, Vieil Charadrius albicapillus, Juv. C! ) 
Wagler, Sr/st. Av. 53 Vanneau armd, du Senegal ? ? PI. 
Enl. 362 Vanellus Senegalensis ? Shaw, Genl. Zool. xi. 2. 
515. 
There is a peculiar gracefulness in these long-legged 
plovers, which, joined to the delicate tints of their 
plumage and the singular fleshy wattles which ge- 
nerally ornament their head, renders them very in- 
teresting birds. The present species has been con- 
sidered, for what reason we know not, as the young 
of albicapillus, a species found, we believe, in India. 
The singularity, however, of the short black stripes, 
which extend round the confines of the deep black 
in front of the chin and throat, will at once dis- 
tinguish it from that and all the other species of 
this numerous and intricate group. 
General colour of the plumage isabella-brown ; 
front, as far as the middle of the crown, white ; the 
remainder portion of the head black, terminating in 
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