Ord^T CHARADRIIF0RME8 
No. 166. 
Family CHARADRIIDM. 
LOBIBYX MILES PERSONATUS. 
LESSER MASKED PLOVER. 
(Plate 130.)* 
Lobivanellus PERSONATUS Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 10, 1842 ; Cobourg 
Peninsula. 
Ldbivanellus personatus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 10, 1842 ; id., Proc. Zoob Soc. 
(Lond.) 1842, p. 113, 1843 ; Gray, List Spec. Brit. Mus., pt. iii., p. 66, 1844 ; Grould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 220, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. I., p. 187, 1877 ; Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadr., p. 188, 1887 (pars). 
Chettusia personata Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 541, 1847. 
Chettusia miles id., Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. iii., p. 12, 1871. 
Ldbivanellus miles Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; id., ib., 2nd ser., 
Vol. I., p. 1099, 1887 ; id., Tabl. List Austr. Birds, p. 19, 1888 (pars) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 301, 1889 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., 
p. 978, 1892 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. V., p. 430, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXIV., p. 140, 1896 ; North, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., 
p. 164, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 81, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, p. 782, 1901 ; Kilgour, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 38, 1904 ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XII., p, 200, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 81, 1906 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 24, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1909, p. 614. 
Lobibyx miles Heine, Mus. Hein., Ornith., p. 334, 1888. 
Lobibyx miles personatus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p- 215, 1912, 
Distribution, North-west Australia, Northern Territory. " 
Adult vmle. Crown of head black ; hind-neck, sides of face, ear-coverts, throat, and 
entire under-surface pure white including the under wing-coverts, axiUaries, and 
under tail-coverts ; wings ash-grey ; middle of back, scapulars, and the innermost 
secondaries ohve-grey ; upper outer-edge of wing white ; primary-coverts and 
primary-quills black, the latter paler on the inner webs and wWte at the base, some 
of the outer primaries brown at the ends ; secondaries black with grey at the base 
on the outer web and white on the inner one, the white and grey increasing on the 
inner secondaries where the black is confined to the tip ; tail white with a broad 
subterminal band of black which is preceded by pale grey and tipped with the 
same colour — this same colour occupies the outer web of the innermost feathers ; 
♦The Plate is lettered Ldb^yx miles. 
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