SPUR-WINGED PLOVER. 
1906 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 13, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 23, 
1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 124, 1910 ; Burrell, Emu, Vol IX,, 
pi xm., 1910 ; Legge, ib., Vol X., p. 51, 1910. 
Pluviarms lobatus Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol XII., p. 179, 1843. 
Chettusia lobata Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 541, 1847. 
Ckettusia galKnacea id., ib. 
Lobivanellus personatus (not Gould) Kirk, Ibis 1888, p. 45 ; id., Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 
1887, Vol. XX., p. 33, 1888. 
Lobibyx lobatus Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., Ornith., p. 334, 1888. 
L(^ibyx novoB-hollandim Mathews, Nov. Zool, Vol. XVIII., p. 5, 1911 ; id.. Emu, Vol. X., 
p. 320, 1911 ; id., Nov. Zool, Vol. XVIII., p. 215, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia 
(New Zealand, accidental). 
I have specimens of this and the next species, shot on the same day in 
Queensland. 
Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wings olive-brown, becoming paler and inclining to 
ash-colour on the outer wing-coverts ; outer, median, and primary-coverts black 
as also the primary-quills ; the latter brown at the tips and paler on the inner web 
at the base of inner primaries ; secondaries for the most part black with grey at the 
base and white on the inner web, the grey and white increasing in extent on the 
inner ones, two of which are edged with white at the tip ; the innermost secondaries 
like the back ; tail white with a subterminal broad black band, and white or greyish- 
broAvn tips ; head, hind-neck and a collar skirting the upper-mantle black like the 
patch on the sides of the breast ; throat, cheeks and sides of neck white like the entire 
under-surface, including the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and under tail-coverts ; 
bill, wattles, and iris canary-yellow ; feet and legs very dark crimson ; spurs 
canary-yellow with black tips. Total length 360 mm. ; culmen 34, wing 245, tail 107, 
tarsus 81. 
Adult female.. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling, in down. General colour of the upper-surface black suffused with buff ; wings 
broadly lined with buffy-white ; forehead ochreous-buff ; a black hne over the eye, 
which widens into a band on the upper hind-neck, this being followed by a white 
collar which extends in a narrow line on to the cheeks ; throat and under-surface 
dull-white becoming tinged with buff on the under- tail and thighs ; hinder^ portion 
of the thighs lined with black ; a yellow wattle above and in front of the eye. 
Nest. A depression in the ground. 
Eggs. Clutch, three to four ; ground-colour green, heavily blotched with spots of dark 
purple-brown and lavender; axis 50-54 mm. ; diameter 36 to 36.5. 
Breeding-season. July (Belcher), August (Cox and Hamilton, Mudgee), September to 
January (Ramsay). 
“ This species has long since become scarce, if not quite extirpated in the 
neighbourhood of Sydney, although plentiful some fifty miles inland. It 
shows a decided preference for the marshy parts of the country, on the 
borders of lakes, swamps, and lagoons, and the grassy margins of rivers. 
On the edge of Lakes Bathurst and George, and Hexham Swamps, they are 
particularly numerous. 
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