Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 Family CHARADRIIDM. 
No. 167. 
LOBIBYX MILES HARTERTI. 
EASTERN MASKED PLOVER. 
Lobibyx miles harterti Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 215, 1912 ; Inkerman, 
Queensland. 
Lohivanellus miles Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 384, 1877 ; id., ib., Vol. II., 
p. 197, 1878 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 64, 1902 ; Cochrane, ih., Vol. III., p. 49, 
1903; Berney, ih., Vol. VI., p. Ill, 1907 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 462. 
Lobibyx miles harterti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 215, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland. 
Adult male. Differs from Lohivanellus miles personatus in being larger and much darker 
above : wing 236 mm., culmen 32, tarsus 76. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nest. A depression in the ground. 
Eggs. “ Clutch four. Ground colour greenish-olive, spotted with dark-brown and 
dull slate. Axis 43-44 mm ; diameter 32-33.” (White.) 
Breeding-season. April (Bemey). 
Mr. F. Berney,* of the Richmond District of North Queensland, writes : 
“ Another occasional visitor, as likely to be seen one month as another. I 
think it is rare for them to nest here, as they seldom remain long enough to 
give themselves time, but I am glad to be able to report their having \ done 
so this year. On the 10th April, while driving a mob of four or five thousand 
sheep along the margin of a swamp, I disturbed half a dozen pairs of these 
Plovers, all of which I am certain were nesting. I found four nests, three 
containing four eggs each and one with a single egg. 
“ As the host of sheep advanced the birds came out to meet it, uttering 
their loud cry ; gradually falling back, they took up their stand facing the 
foe, right on the edge of their nests. One step backwards would have put 
them on the eggs. Extending their wings, they displayed the full expanse of 
their white front, and clamorously — ^very clamorously — defied all and sundry 
to come on. Even when I went up to personally investigate they declined 
to do anything more than retire a few yards at a dignified walk, loudly 
* Emu , Vol. VI., p. Ill, 1907. 
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