266 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



also in his notes contributed to the Appendix to Chapman^s 

 * Travels/ p. 415, as being not uncommon at Lake Ngami ; but I 

 believe he intended to apply these remarks to the preceding 

 species, as at the time he made them he seems not to have been 

 aware of the distinction between these two nearly allied Pratin- 

 coles, although he subsequently became acquainted with the 

 difterences between them. — Ed.] 



310. (Edicnemus capensis, Licht. Spotted Thickncc. 



CEdicnemus capetisis, Liclitenstein's Doubletten, p. G9. 

 CEdicnemus maculosus, Temminck's PI. Col. pi. 292. 



„ „ Layavd's Cat. No. 550. 



CEdicnemus capensis, Finscb & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-AfrikaV, p. G24. 



This bird is partially migratory in Great Namaqua 

 and Damara Land — and though uncommon, is neverthe- 

 less very local, so that numbers of them may be found 

 in one small spot, whilst the country far and wide 

 around does not produce a single individual. 



This species prefers broken ground sparingly covered 

 with dwarf bush ; it i« comparatively tame and easy of 

 approach, and seems to be chiefly on the move after dusk. 



311. (Edicnemus vermiculatuS, Cab. Ycrmieulated Thicknec. 

 (Edtcnennis scniycdensi.s, (iiirney, iu Ibis, 18G5, p. 270. 

 (Edicneinus cermicidutiis, Cabauis in Deckeu's Reisen, vol. iii. pi. 10. 



,, „ Finscb & Hartlaub's Vcigel Ost-Afrika's, 



p. 622. 

 „ „ Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 9942. 



[I have not met with this species in INIr. Andersson's notes 

 or collections, but introduce it here on the authority of a speci- 

 men from the Orange River referred to by Drs. Fiusch and 

 Hartlaub [loc. cit.) as forming part of the ornithological col- 

 lection at the Stuttgard Museum. 



The same authors also cite Namaqua Land as a locality for this 

 Thicknec, on the authority of ]M. Jules Vcrreaux. — Ed.] 



