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Lobivanellus, wing-spurs in. Local influences, effect of, upon stature. Lockwood, Mr., on the development of Hippocampus. Lockwood, Rev. S., musical mouse. Locust, bright-coloured, rejected by lizards and birds. Locust, migratory; selection by female. Locustidae, stridulation of the; descent of the. Locusts, proportion of sexes in; stridulation of.
R. Carr in 'Land and Water, Aug. 8th, 1868, p. 46. In regard to Lobivanellus, see Jerdon's 'Birds of India, vol. iii. p. 647, and Gould's 'Handbook of Birds of Australia, vol. ii. p. 220. For the Hoplopterus, see Mr. The presence of the female is the teterrima belli causa. Mr. Richardson on Tetrao umbellus, 'Fauna Bor. Amer.: Birds, 1831, p. 343.
In some species of Lobivanellus a similar tubercle becomes developed during the breeding-season "into a short horny spur." In the Australian L. lobatus both sexes have spurs, but these are much larger in the males than in the females.
Melithreptus gularis, GOULD. lunulata, VIEILL. Myzantha garrula, VIG. and HORSF. Phaps chalcoptera. elegans. Ocyphaps Lophotes. Geopelia cuneata. Dromeceius Novae-Hollandiae, VIEILL. Otis Australasianus, GOULD. OEdicnemus longipes, VIEILL. Haematopus fuliginosus, GOULD. longirostris, VIEILL. Eudromias Australis, GOULD. Lobivanellus lobatus. Sarciophorus pectoralis. Charadrius Virginianus?
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