(EDICNEMUS VERMICULATUS. 647 
Head, neck and all the upper parts of the body pale tawny brown ; 
down the middle of each feather a dark streak ; fore part of neck 
and breast paler; belly, thighs, and vent pale yellowish white ; 
above each eye a pale streak, below the same, extending to the 
bill; throat white; tail with a dark band across each feather ; 
tip black, the rest white; length, 13’; wings, 8”. 
According to Mr. Ayres, the female is of the same size as the 
male, but duller in plumage. “ Iris, light yellow; eye, very large ; 
bill black, with the exception of a patch over each nostril and the 
base of the lower mandible, which parts are yellow” (Ayres). 
619. CEpicnemus vermicuLatus, Cab. Vermiculated Thick-knee. 
A specimen of this Thick-knee is said by Drs. Finsch and Hart- 
laub to be in the Stuttgardt Museum from the Orange River, and 
they give the authority of the late Jules Verreaux for its occurrence 
in Namaqua Land. 
It is an East African species which appears to come into the 
northern parts of our present limits for this work. Mr, Ayres says 
that he saw it on several occasions in the sandy bed of some parts 
of the Umvuli. He has not met with the species out of Mashoona 
Land, and did not see any after leaving the Quae Quae River. Prof. 
Barboza du Bocage has received it from localities to the north of 
the Quanza, and also from the Cunene River. At Quillengues and 
Humbe it is said by Anchieta to arrive along with @. capensis, and 
both species bear the same native names, being called in Quillengues 
Lungungua, at Humbe Kilubio and Soca-soca. 
The following description is translated from Professor Barboza du 
Bocage’s “Ornithologie d’Angola”’:—Plumage above, pale ashy 
brown, striped with blackish, and varied with brown vermiculations, 
more distinct on the feathers of the back and scapulars, the streaks 
of the anterior part of the back more strongly marked and larger ; 
throat and a band below the eye from the base of the bill to the 
region of the ear-coverts white; lower part of the back dirty white, 
washed with buff ; the breast and the flanks streaked with blackish ; 
under tail-coverts rufous; an oblique band of black on the wing- 
coverts, bordered above with whitish, and followed by a large space 
of clear ashy streaked with black; quills black, the three first 
primaries crossed with a complete white band ; centre tail-feathers 
coloured like the back, the latter ones rayed with brown and white, 
