242 STRIPE -THROATED LAPWING. 
short stripes of the same colour ; the lores, or space 
between the bill and eye, is occupied by a naked 
skin, detached round its margin, and hanging down 
as a pendent lobe; the colour in the preserved spe- 
cimen is rich yellow tinged with red or orange. 
The chin and front of the throat, nearly to the breast, 
is unbroken black, which terminates round the con- 
fines in short black stripes. The black of the quills 
is separated, as usual in this genus, from the brown 
of the covers by a broad white space. The first, 
second, and third quills are the longest ; the tail, 
which is even, has the basal half and the tip white, 
the rest occupied by a broad black band ; the wings 
are long and project a little beyond the tail. The 
interior wing-covers and the under tail-covers are 
white, the former pure, the latter tinged with ful- 
vous. Feet clear yellow ; the claws and the wing- 
spur deep black ; inner toe shortest, hinder toe very 
minute. 
Total length about 12 inches ; bill, l x 3 0 ; wings, 
9 ; tail from the base, 4 ; tarsus, 3 ; hinder toe mi- 
nute, only t 2 0 . 
