12 CEDICNEMID-ffi. 



former; quills black, the first three, and sometimes the fourth 

 primary, having white marks on both webs ; inner primaries with 

 white bases, forming a speculum ; centre tail-feathers like the back, 

 similarly mottled and vermiculated, the rest of the feathers barred 

 with black and white near the ends, the terminal bars being very 

 broad ; head like the back ; lores, eyebrow, and a band below the 

 eye white ; hinder ear-coverts and cheeks brown, streaked with 

 black ; throat and underparts white, washed with tawny buff on 

 the lower throat and treast, which are also streaked with brown ; 

 the sides of the body with narrow shaft-stripes of the same colour ; 

 under tail-coverts light cinnamon ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white, the small coverts round the bend of the wing brown 

 like the upper surface : " bill black, with a patch round the nostrils 

 and the base of the lower mandible yellow ; tarsi and feet very 

 pale ashy green ; iris tawny yellow " (T. Ayres). Total length 14 

 inches, culmen 1*5, wing 7 - 9, tail 4, tarsus 2*75. 



Hab. Southern Africa from the eastern districts of the Cape 

 Colony north to Loango on the west, and on the east extending as 

 far as the Victoria Nyanza. 



a. Ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown. Major Trevelyan [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Krauss [C.]. 



(Types of CE. natalemis.) 



d, e. Ad. sk. Natal (Gordge). Tweeddale & Seebohm 



Colls. 



/. Ad. sk. Zambesi (Dr. Mellar). Tweeddale Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Tette, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Expedi- 



tion. 



h. Ad. sk. Tshiromo, Nyasaland. H. H. Johnston, Esq., 



C.B. [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Usambara Hills (Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Caconda, Benguela (Anchieta). Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



4. (Edicnemus bistriatus. 



Charadrius bistriatus, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 648 (Mexico). 



CEdicnemus vocifer, L Herminier, Mag. de Zool. 1837, pi. 84 (U.S. 

 Colombia) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 93 (1854). 



(Edicnemus americanus, Sioains. An. in Menag. p. 349 (1837 ; inte- 

 rior of Guiana). 



(Edicnemus bistriatus, Gray, List Grallcs in Brit. Mus. p. 59 (1844: 

 British Guiana) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 535 (1844) ; Cab. in Schomb. 

 Reis. Guian. iii. p. 749 (1848) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856) ; 

 Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. 68 (Guatemala) ; Salvin, t. c. p. 356 ; id. Ibis, 

 1865, p. 198 (Pacific coast of Guatemala) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, 

 p. 397 (Vera Cruz, Mexico) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 19 

 (1865 : Guadeloupe, Brazil) ; Scl. $ Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 60 (1867) ; 

 Franz. J. f. O. 1869, p. 378 (Nicaragua, Costa Bica) ; Pelz. Orn. 

 Bras. p. 296 (1871 : Forte de Rio Branco) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 

 p. 10, no. 9945 (1871) ; Scl. Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 142 

 (1873) ; Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 389 (1883 : Nica- 

 ragua) ; Berlepsch, Ibis, 1884, p. 440 (Venezuela) ; Salvin, Ibis t 

 1886, p. 177 (British Guiana) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr, 

 p. 85 (1888). 



