Family OEDICNEMIDAE. 



Oedicnemus oedicnemus (L.) — Stone-Curlew. 



(Plate 134, fig. a-d). 

 (Snoiickaert: Avifauna Ncerlandica, p. 91, No. 214). 



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sandy; olive yellow or reddish yellow; 

 sometimes tinged slightly greenish; in 

 Hewitson's Work ') and in Krause's '-) 

 eggs are depicted with an olive green 

 ground colour such as occurs in eggs of 

 Limosa linwsa and Numcnius arqiiata. 



brown, in various shades; underlying spots 

 show through ash-grey. 



54.5 X 38.7 millimetres. 



3.26 grams. 



uniform and finely granulated. 



mostly ovoidal. 



on the ground, among much gravel or shells. 



2. ■■') 



end of May, June, beginning of July. 



about 4 weeks. 



') Eggs of British Birds, ed. 3, plate LXX! V, fig. 3. (Compare : Ootheca Wolley- 

 ana. Part 111, p. 126, § 3540). 



-) Oologia universalis palaearctica, middle clutch on the Plate. 



3) In „Zeitschr. f. Ool." (Hocke) XX, p. 71, mention is made of a clutch 

 consisting of three eggs, found in West-Prussia, 15— V— '10. 



