128 FAUNA AND FLORA OF PALESTINE. 



ORDER, LIMICOL/E. 



FAMILY, CEDICNEMID.E. 



294. (Edicncnms scolopax. (S. G. Gmel. Reis. d. Russl. iii., p. 87.) 

 Stone Curlew. Arab. ^)^, Kci'oiiaii. 



The Stone Curlew is plentiful in the Ghor, at the north end of ths 

 Dead Sea, remaining throughout the year and breeding there. When 

 camped at Jericho we heard its cry continually through the night. In 

 winter it is common in the southern wilderness, and we found it breeding 

 in the north above Huleh. 



The Stone Curlew inhabits temperate Europe and Asia as far as 

 India, and North-eastern Africa. 



FAMILY, GLAREOLID.E. 



295. Glareola pratincola. (Linn. Syst. Nat. i., p. 345.) Pratincole. 



The Pratincole is not found in winter, but is very plentiful in spring 

 in colonies on all the marshy plains, especially Huleh, Gennesaret, and 

 Acre, in all which it breeds, laying its eggs in the barest places. 



The Pratincole inhabits Southern and Central Europe, Asia as far as 

 India, and Africa almost to the Cape. 



FAMILY, CHARADRIID.^. 



296. Cursorius gallicns. (Gmel. Syst. Nat. i., p. 692.) Cream- 

 coloured Courser. 



Rare in Palestine proper. I twice obtained it near Acre, where the 

 specimens are of a much deeper hue than any I have seen elsewhere. 

 We also saw it in the southern wilderness and on the uplands of Eastern 

 Moab. 



The Cream-coloured Courser is really an inhabitant of the Sahara 

 and of the deserts of Western Asia as far as Scinde. Elsewhere it is 

 only a straggler, and is nowhere numerous. 



