CGEDICNEMUS. 339 
The members of this family make no nest, but deposit their two eggs on bare and 
stony ground, so that the latter are very difficult to discover. ‘The nestlings are not 
so variegated as those of the true Plovers or Snipes, but are densely clothed with down 
of a grey or sandy colour, admirably adapted to concealment in the surroundings 
in which they are hatched. 
Four genera of CEdicnemide are recognized by ornithologists, only one of which, 
(Edicnemus, has any representatives in the New World. Here occur three species, viz., 
G. bistriatus, from Central and South America, @. dominicensis, from San Domingo, 
and (. superciliaris, from Peru. 
CEDICNEMUS. 
(Edicnemus, Temm. Man. d’Orn., p. 821 (1815) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 3 (1896). 
The characters of the genus are the same as those of the family. 
1. G@dicnemus bistriatus. 
Charadrius bistriatus, Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 643°. 
Gdicnemus bistriatus, Gray, List Gralle Brit. Mus. p. 59°; Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. 68°; Salv. t. c. 
p. 356‘; Ibis, 1865, p.198°; Scl. P. Z.S. 1865, p. 397°; v. Frantz. J.f. Orn. 1869, p. 378°; 
Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 45°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 282°; Salvin, Cat. 
Strickl. Coll. p. 591°; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 889"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 12"; Salvad. & Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, xiv. no. 339, p. 12”. 
Cidicnemus sp., Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 814". 
Supra nigro et rufo late striatus, plumis saturate brunneis, rufo marginatis ; uropygio grisescente, plumis 
anguste brunneo medialiter striatis ; pileo medio rufescente angustius brunneo striolato ; pilei lateribus 
nigris, fasciam longitudinalem latam formantibus ; regione oculari et supra-auriculari albis ; facie laterali 
et collo undique rufescentibus, anguste brunneo striolatis; gutture et corpore subtus albis, jugulo imo et 
prepectore fulvescenti-rufis, anguste brunneo striolatis; pectore summo grisescente ; subcaudalibus cervinis ; 
tectricibus alarum magis griseseenti-brunneis, his et secundariis intimis rufo marginatis; remigibus 
ceteris saturate sepiariis, intus albis, secundariis basaliter albis, primario externo extus dimidiatim albe ; 
rectricibus medianis grisescentibus, reliquis fere albis, nigro bi- vel trifasciatis et fascia lata nigricante 
terminatis; subalaribus et axillaribus albis. Long. tota circa 17-0, ale 10-9, caude 4-9, culm. 2:2, 
tarsi 4°4. 
9 mari similis. Long. tota circa 17:0, ale 9-7. (Deser. maris et feminze ex Huamachal, Guatemala. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. adultis similis, sed supra magis marmoratus, plumis saturate brunneis undique rufo fimbriatis ; 
hypochondriis griseo lavatis. (Descr. av. Juv. ex San Gerénimo. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (Wagler}), both coasts®, Tapana * (Swmichrast), Vera Cruz (Boucard °), 
Misantla (Ferrari-Perez '*), Tonala, Chiapas (Richardson ”); GUATEMALA (Con- 
stancia ©, O. S.4), Huamachal (0. S.°1?), San Gerdénimo (Owen*®, O. S. 1"); 
Honpuras (Zaylor*); Nicaragua, Sucuyé (Nutting), San Juan del Norte 
(v. Frantzius’); Costa Rica, San Jose (v. Frantzius’); Panama (festa }8).— 
Cotomsra!2; VenezueLa!?; Guiana? ; Amazonra }?, 
This species is found in suitable situations from Mexico to Panama, and extends 
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