266 BIRDS OF DAMAEA LAND. 



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

 f 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 

 differences between them. ED.] 



310. (Edicnenms Capensis, Licht. Spotted Thicknee. 



CEdicnemus capensis, Liechtenstein's Doubletten, p. 69. 

 (Edicnemus maculosus, Temminck's PI. Col. pi. 292. 



Layard's Cat. No. 550. 



(Edicnemus capensis, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost- Afrika's, p. 624, 



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 is comparatively tame and easy of 

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



311. (Edicnemus vermiculatus, Cab. Yermiculated Thicknee. 



(Edicnemus senegalensis, Gurney, in Ibis, 1865, p. 270. 



CEdicnemus vermiculatus, Cabanis in Decken's Reisen, vol. iii. pi. 16. 



,, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's 7 



p. 622. 



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



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

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

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

 Hartlaub (loc. tit.) as forming part of the ornithological col- 

 lection at the Stuttgard Museum. 



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

 Thicknee, on the authority of M. Jules Verreaux. ED.] 



