. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . —Jerdon, Birds of India, iii. p. —Unknown (probably taken by Prjevalski). Literature. The Grey-headed Wattled Lapwing has a hind toe, but may be easily distinguished Specific from those species which are also furnished with this appendage by its pure white secondaries. characters. 184 L0B1VANELLTJS. Geographi-cal distribu-tion. Nearestallies. It breeds in South-east Mongolia, North China, and Japan, and winters in North-eastIndia and the Burma Peninsula. The Gre
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . —Jerdon, Birds of India, iii. p. —Unknown (probably taken by Prjevalski). Literature. The Grey-headed Wattled Lapwing has a hind toe, but may be easily distinguished Specific from those species which are also furnished with this appendage by its pure white secondaries. characters. 184 L0B1VANELLTJS. Geographi-cal distribu-tion. Nearestallies. It breeds in South-east Mongolia, North China, and Japan, and winters in North-eastIndia and the Burma Peninsula. The Grey-headed Wattled Lapwing can only claim admission to the genus Lobivanellusby virtue of a small wattle on the lores. It must be regarded as a connecting link betweenthat genus and Va?iellus. It is probably not very distantly related to V. leucurus; andsince it is the only species of Wattled Lapwing which still inhabits the immediateneighbourhood of the great steppes, where the common ancestors of the two genera appearto have lived, we may perhaps assume that it is one of their least changed LOBIVANELLUS INDICUS. BRONZE-WINGED WATTLED LAPWING. Diagnosis. Lobivanellus rectricum fascia alba terminali lata (circa 15 ad 20 millim.). Variations. The Bronze-winged Wattled Lapwings east of the Ganges differ so much from the typicalform that they must certainly be regarded as subspecifically distinct. Legge says that ex-amples from Ceylon are smaller than those from the mainland, the former varying in length LOBIVANELLUS. 185 of wing from 80 to 8*4 inch, whilst the latter vary from 8*6 to 92 inch. My series fromthe continent confirms the measurements given by Legge, but my solitary skin from Ceylonmeasures 8-6 inch. Tringa indica, Boddaert, Table PI. Enl. no. 807, p. 50 (1783). Parra goensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 706 (1788). Tringa goensis (Gmel.), Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 727 (1790). Vanellus goensis (Gmel.), Vieillot, N. Diet. dHist. Nat. xxxv. p. 208 (1819). Ch
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