342 GALLO-GRALL^. 



Family (EDICNEMID^ *. 



Genus CSDICNEMUS. 



Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 321 (1815). 



CEdicnemus oedicnemus. 



Chararlrms cedicnemu<i , Linnaeus, Syst. i^at. i. p. 255 (1768). 

 (Edicnemus scohpax, B. 0. U. List Brit. B. p. 155 (1883). 



The Stone-Curlew or Thick-knee. 



Hob. Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia 

 as far as India. 



1696. Skeleton. 0. C. 1347 g. Purchased. 



CTIdicnemus capensis. 



(Edicnemus capensis, Lichtenstcin, Vcrz. Doubl. p. G9 (1823) ; 

 Seebohm, Geogr. Distrib. Charadr. p. 81 (1888). 



The South-Afeican Stone-Curlew. 



Hah. South and East Africa. 



1697. Sternum, with right coracoid, scapula, and furcula. S. S. 

 1015. Purchased. 



Edicnemus grallarius. 



Charadrius grcdlarius, Latham, Ind. Orn., SuppL i. p. Ixvi (1801). 

 (Edicnemus grallcmus (Lath.), Secbohm, Geogr. Distrib. Charadr. 



p. 83 (1888). 



The Australian Stone-Curlew. 



Hah. Australia. 



1698. Sternuui, with right coracoid, scapula, and fui'cula. S. S. 



Hiver, N. S. Wales. 

 Presented hy Dr. E. P. Pamsay. 



182(). From Clarence liiver, N, S. AV^ales. 



* = Suborder (Edienemi, Sharpe, Review, p. 73. Cf. Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 4. 



