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ALSACINM, 



Gen. CEdicnemus.— Cwz', 



Bill longer than the head, straight and slightly depressed at the base ; 

 culmen raised near the point ; mandible angnlated beneath ; nostrils in the 

 middle of the bill in a longitudinal slit; toes three ; tail graduated. 



(Edicnemus crepitans, 



142. CEdicnemuS crepitans, Te,yim., Man. d' Om, p. 348 ',yerd., 

 B. Ind. iii, p. 654; Hume, Str. F. i, p. 232; id,, Str. F. iii, p. 182; 

 Blyih, B. Burm. p. 152; Oates, Sir. F. xi. p, 238 ; Murray, Verl. ZooL Sind, 

 p. 232 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 596, No. 1273, Charadrius oedicne- 

 mus, Linn, Syst. Nat. i. p. 255. Charadrius scolopax, S. G. Gmel., Reisse 

 Buss. iii. p. 87, pi, 16, (Edicnemus indicus, Salvad., Ass. Soc. Ital. Sc, 

 Nat. viii. p. 380; Hume, Nests and Eggs Bid. B. p, 581. (Edicnemus 

 scolopax, "Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 401, p].; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 969; Oates, 

 B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 356, — The Stone Plover or Bastard Floriken, 



Lores white, with a few brown spots ; chin and throat white ; a distinct 

 narrow moustachial stripe from the base of the lower mandible ; head, neck, 

 back, scapulars and upper tail coverts reddish ashy, each feather with a 

 mesial dusky streak ; breast the same as the back ; belly white ; under tail 

 coverts reddish ashy ; tail white basally, all the feathers except the middle 

 ones tipped with black ; thigh coverts white ; primaries black, the first three 

 quills with a patch of white at their terminal third, and the last three white 

 basally and at tip with a subterminal dark band ; edges of the greater wing 

 coverts white, forming a wing band. 



Length. — 16 inches; wing 9 ; tail 4-5 ; bill at front I'S; irides and orbits 

 yellow ; also the legs and feet. 



