1. (EDICNEMUS. 15 



bars and subterminal lines of dusky blackish, following the margins 

 of the feathers, which are sandy buff, there are also bars of a sandy 

 buff on the feathers of the upper surface ; the throat, lower breast, 

 and abdomen pure white ; under tail-coverts very pale cinnamon ; 

 the fore neck and breast pale ashy grey, the former with dusky 

 shaft-lines, the sides of the neck browner : " bill blackish, with the 

 basal half of the upper mandible green ; feet green ; iris white " 

 (Stolzmanri). Total length 15 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 8 - 5, tail4 - 3, 

 tarsus 3 - 7. 



Young. More thickly mottled with sandy-buff margins to the 

 feathers, especially the dark lesser wing-coverts ; the white eyebrow 

 continued in a ring round the nape ; the dark band on the hinder 

 side of the crown not so broad as in the adults ; a second band of 

 black behind the ear-coverts : " bill black, the base of the lower 

 mandible grey ; feet olive ; iris beautiful yellow " (Stolzmanri). 



Hab. Western Peru, from Lima to Tumbez. 



a. Juv. sk. Lima, Peru. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. cf ad. sk. Northern Peru, Dec. 18 Count Branicki [P.]. 



(J. Kalinoicski). 



c. Ad. sk. Western Peru. Zool. Society. 



7. (Edicnemus capensis. 



CEdicnemus capensis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 69 (1823: Cape); 

 Finsch $ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 624 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 9, no. 9941 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 266 

 (1872 ; Great Namaqua and Dainara Land) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 104 (Potchefstroom) ; Hurting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 457; Ayres, 

 Ibis, 1880, p. Ill (Transvaal) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 424 (1881 : 

 S. Angola, Quillengues, Humbe, Caconda) ; Sharpe, in Oates's 

 Matabele-Land, App. B, p. 326 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 

 (Spalding's, Hart R.) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 389 (1884 : 

 Nguruman) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S.Afr. p. 645 (1884: Cape 

 Colony generally and Natal); Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 116; 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 338 (Natal) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 

 p. 81 (1888); Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. x. p. 243 (1888: Hum- 

 pata) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 371 (Kilimanjaro) ; Heine fy 

 Beichen. Komenel. Mas. Hein., Orn. p. 333 (1890 : S. Africa) ; 

 Beichen. J. f. O. 1891, p. 141 (Yura, Uniamuesi) ; Hartl. Abh. 

 Ver. Brem. xii. pt. 1, p. 41 (1891 : Usambiro) ; Beichen. J. f. O. 

 1892, p. 8 (Victoria Nyanza). 



CEdicnemus maculosus, Tenon. PL Col. v. pi. 292 (1824); Gray, Gen. 

 B. iii. p. 535 (1844) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 217 (Natal) ; Layard, 

 B. S. Afr. p. 288 (1867 : Natal, Kaffraria) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 254 ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 76 ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 104 

 (Potchefstroom) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogels. Mus. Senckenb. p. 219 

 (1891). 



CEdicnemus macrocnemus, Licht. Vbg. Kaffernl. p. 19 (1842); Hartl. 

 J.f. 0.1854, p. 213. 



CEdicnemus affinis {nee Biipp.), Cab. J. f. 0. 1878, p. 245 (Ndi, 

 Teita) ; Bohm, J. f. O. 1882, p. 185 (Tabora) ; Schahio, J. f. O. 

 1883, p. 339 (Tabora) ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 47 (Schasche). 



Adult 7nale. General colour above tawny or sandy rufous, mottled 



