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SENEGAL THICK-KNEE. 



(Edicnemus Senegalensis, SWAINS. 



Greater wing- covers white, with a broad black band close to 

 their tips ; lesser covers greyish- white, with a black line 

 down their shafts ; shoulder-covers fulvous, terminated 

 by a band of black ; chin and body beneath white, imma- 

 culate. 



THE Thick- kneed Plovers, like many other natural 

 groups, have such a uniformity in their general cast 

 of colouring, that it is even difficult to distinguish 

 the species, unless hy actual comparison ; how much 

 more so, when these discriminating marks are ob- 

 scurely stated, or entirely overlooked, in the pub- 

 lished descriptions and figures. The colouring of 

 the birds themselves, indeed, is so very complicated, 

 that it is almost impossible, except by long and 

 tedious descriptions, to convey any definite idea of 

 the markings, stripes, &c. of the feathers. We 

 must, therefore, in the present instance, confine 

 ourselves to those particulars in which the Senegal 

 ;pecies differs from the two others to which it if 

 most allied, E. crepitans and Capensis. 



General size and aspect, and colour, on the uppe. 

 parts, as the European species, but from which it 

 may be thus distinguished. The shoulder- covers 



