b (EDicNEiiiD-a:. 



CEdicnernus griseus, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. p. 266 (1816). 



Fedoa cedicneinus, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. fyc. Brit. Mas. p. 28 

 (1816). 



CEdicnemus europaeus. Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxiii. p. 230 

 (1818). 



CEdicnemus belonii, Ronx, Orn. Prov. pi. 266 (1825) ; Flem. Brit. 

 Animals, p. 114 (1828). 



CEdicnemus desertorum, Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl. p. 539 (1831). 



CEdicnemus arenarius, Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl. p. 539 (1831). 



./Edicnemus crepitans, Selys-Lonqch. Faun. Bely. p. 120 (1842) ; 

 Fritsck, Vbg. Eur. Taf. 39. fig. 8 (1870). 



The Great Plover, Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 380 (1843). 



CEdicnemus indicus, Salvad. Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 381 

 (1866) ; Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. p. 581 (1873) ; id. Str. F. i. 

 p. 96 (1873 : Sindh) ; Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 430 (1874 : Chota Nagpur); 

 Fairb. Str. F. iv. p. 263 (1876: Khandala) ; Armstrong, t. c. 

 p. 340 (China Ba-keer). 



CEdicnemus crepitans /3. senegalensis, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 59 

 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 327. 



CEdicnemus scolopax, Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 401, pi. 512 (1876) ; 

 Hume § Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 458 (1878 : Tenasserim) ; Davids. 

 # Wenden, Str. F. vii. p. 88 (1878 : Deccan) ; Ball, t. c. p. 227 

 (Ganges to Godavery) ; Hume, t. c. p. 483 (Calcutta) ; id. Str. F. 

 viii. p. 112 (1879) ; Finsch, Verhandl. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 242 

 (1879 : N. Saissan) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 59 (1879) ; id. 

 Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 74 (1880) ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 969 

 (1880) ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 82 (1880 : S. Konkan) ; Butler, Str. 

 F. ix. p. 427 (S. Mahratta Country) ; Reid, Str. F. x. p. 67 

 (1881 : Lucknow); Davidson, t. c. p. 319 (1882: W. Khandeish); 

 Parker, t. c. p. 482 (Ceylon : breeding) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 591 (1882, pt); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 155 (1883); Saunders, 

 ed. Yarr. Brit. B. iii. p. 225 (1883); id. Ibis, 1884, p. 388 

 (Pyrenees) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 356 (1883) ; Tristr. Faun. 

 $ Flor. Palest, p. 128 (1884); Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 41 

 (Corsica) ; Sioinhoe $■ Barnes, t. c. p. 133 (Mhow Distr.) ; Reid, 

 t. c. p. 252 (Morocco) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 20 (Aden) ; Sharpe, 

 t. c. p. 167 (Muscat); Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 366 (1886); Salvad. 

 Elenco Ucc. Ital. p. 206 (1886); Backhouse, Ibis, 1887, p. 74 (E. 

 Pyrenees) ; Tait, t. c. p. 384 (Portugal : breeding) ; Reid, Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 77 (Teneriffe: breeding); Reichen. Syst. Verz. Vbg. Deutschl. 

 p. 51 (1889) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 515 (1889) ; Eagle 

 Clarke, Ibis, 1889, p. 551 (Mediterranean) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 403 (Ireland) ; Gigl. 1st Resoc. Avif. Ital. p. 502 (1889) ; id. 

 2nd Resoc. p. 656 (1890) ; id. 3rd Resoc. p. 514 (1891) ; Heine $ 

 Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein., Orn. p. 333 (1890) ; Evans, Ibis, 

 1891, p. 79 ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 169 (Aden : cold season). 



CEdicnemus crepitans indicus, Seebohm, Geoqr. Distr. Charadr. p. 77 

 (1880). ' * 



CEdicnemus cedicnemus, Brusina, Motr., etc. (Orn. Croatia), p. 86 

 (1890); Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 113 (Fao) ; Hartert, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 516 (E. Prussia). 



CEdicnemus cedicnemus saharae, Reichen. J.f. 0.1894, p. 102. 



Adult male. General colour above sandy buff, streaked with 

 blackish centres to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts a little more 

 tawny than the back, with broad black streaks ; median coverts 

 greyish, with brown bases and mesially streaked with black, with a 



