1. (EDICNEITUS. 11 



Hah. West Africa from Scnegambia to Gaboon. North-eastern 

 Africa from the neighbourhood of Lado to Shoa, and north to Kor- 

 dofan, Senaar, and Egypt. 



a. Ad. sk. Egypt. G. Tumbull, Esq. 



[P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Near Massowa. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[0.1 



d. <$ ad. sk. Amba, Abyssinia, Aug. 21 ( W. Tweeddale Coll. 



Jesse). 



e. 2 ad. sk. Lado, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



March 15. 



f. Ad. sk. River Quorra. Capt. Allen [P.! 



g. Ad. sk. Accra (7*. E. Buckley). Shelley Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Accra (J. Smith). Seebohm Coll. 

 *. Ad. st. Gambia. Seebohm Coll. 

 k. Ad. sk. Gambia (Sir A. Moloney). Shelley Coll. 



3. (Edicnemus vermiculatus. 



CEdicnemus natalensis, Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 59 (1844 : 



nom. nudum). 

 CEdicnemus senegalensis (nee Sw.), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 331 (Zam- 

 besi) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 270 (Natal) ; Bocage, Jom. Lisb. 

 1867, p. 228, 1870, p. 350 ; Sharpe $ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, l. p. 52 (1876 : Landana) : Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 6J6 (1884). rt 9 j 



CEdicnemus vermiculatus, Cab. J. f. O. 1868, p. 413 ; id. in Von 

 dei- Decken's Reis. iii. p. 46, pi. 16 (1870) ; Finsch $• Hartl. Vog. 

 Ostafr. p. 622 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 9, no. 9942 (1871) ; 

 Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 266 (1872: Orange River; 

 Namaqualand) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 11 (Loango Coast) ; 

 Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 245 (Mombasa; Zanzibar) ; Fischer, J.f. 0. 

 1879, pp. 296, 303; id. $ Reichen. t.c. p. 338; Bocage, Orn 

 Angola, p. 423 (1881 : S. Angola ; Quillengues ; Humbe) ; 

 Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 598 (Usambara Hills) ; Bohm, J. f. O. 

 1882, p. 185; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 362 (Quae Quae River): 

 Schalow, J.f. O. 1883, rh 339 (French Is.) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. 

 Orn. i. p. 389 (1884: Pangani) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 647 (1884); Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, p. 116 (Wapokomoland: 

 Bagamoyo ; Zanzibar) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 47 (Ka«-ehi) • 

 Matschie, t. c. p. 138 (Tanganyika) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 338 

 (Umgeni River ; Natal) ; id. Qeogr. Distrib. Charadr. p. 80 (1888); 

 Reichen. J. f. 0. 1889, p. 260 (Quaqua River) ; Emm, J. f. O. 

 1891, p. 339 (Victoria Nyansa) ! Reichen. J. f O. 1892, p. 8 

 (Bukoba) ; id. JH. Hamburg, tviss. A?ist. x. p. 6 (1893: Quaqua 

 River). * 



Adult. General colour above distinctly vermiculated with dusky 

 cross bars, not only on the back, but also on the wings and tail, the 

 usual black centres to the dorsal feathers being present; lesser 

 wing-coverts brown, followed by a black band, which is again suc- 

 ceeded by a white band across the upper line of the median coverts, 

 the rest of the median and greater coverts ashy grey, with a black 

 band on the latter and well-marked black shaft-streaks on the 



