4 CEDICNEMLM2. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Centre tail-feathers uniform or slightly ver- 



miculated or barred, but the bars very narrow 

 and not equal in width to the interspaces. 



a. No black patch on the sides of the hinder 



crown ; throat, breast, and flanks conspicu- 

 ously streaked with black. 

 a". Upper surface of the body not vermicu- 

 lated. 

 a'". A white band across the line of the 

 median coverts, bordered above and 

 below by a line of black feathers .... cedicnemus, p. 4, 

 b'". No white band across the median 

 coverts, which are grey like the 

 major-coverts, with longitudinal black 



centres senegahnsis, p. 10. 



b". Upper surface of body vermiculated, a 

 narrow line of white across the median 

 coverts, plainly bordered above, but 

 scarcely below, by a line of black ; rest 

 of median coverts pale ashy grey, like 

 the greater series venniculatus, p. 11. 



b . A black patch on the sides of the hinder 



crown ; throat, breast, and flanks not 



streaked with black. , u s f r j a i us p \2 



c". Upper surface mottled, tawny and black. . •} , ■ • ' '■' ' -, A 

 ,,, rT " „ . , ' < , . j _-ii dommicensis, p. 14. 



a . Upper surface greyish, vermiculated with ' ' r 



dusky and dull sandy buff super ciliar is, p. 14. 



b. Centre tail-feathers broadly barred across with 



rufous and black ; upper surface of body 

 coarsely spotted and barred with black, but 

 not streaked. 

 c'. Larger; bands on median wing-coverts broad 



and coarse ; tarsus 3 - 7 capensis, p. 15. 



d'. Smaller ; bands on median wing-coverts 



narrower; tarsus 3'2 affinis, p. 17. 



1. (Edicnemus cedicnemus. 



The Stone Curlew, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. G6, pi. 69 (1738: 



Norfolk). 

 Le Grand Pluvier, appelle" vulgairement Courly de Terre, Briss. 



Orn. v. p. 77, pi. vii. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Charadrius cedicnemus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 



Nat. i. p. 689 (1788). 

 Charadrius scolopax, S. G. Gmel. Pels. Russl. iii. p. 87, pi. 16 (1774). 

 Le Grand Pluvier, D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. ix. pi. 919 (1765-1781) ; 



Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 105 (1781). 

 Charadrius illyricus, Filler, It, Poseg. Sclav, p. 26 (1783). 

 Thick-kneed Bustard, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 2, p. 806 (1783). 

 Otis cedicnemus. Lath. Ind, Orn, p. 661 (1790). 

 (Edicnemus crepitans, Tenwi. Man. d'Om. p. 332 (1815) ; Werner, 



Atals, Coureurs, pi. 6 (1827) ; Menetr. Cat. Pais. Cauc. p. 54 



(1832) ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vii. p. 92, pi. 172 (1834) ; Gould, 



B. Eur. iv. pi. 288 (1838) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. $ N. Amer. 



p. 45 (1838) ; Crespon, Orn. Gard, p. 350 (1840) ; Keys. u. Bias. 



