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(EDICNEMID^ 



(EDICNEMUS 



Sportsm. S.A.p. 120 (1892); Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 382; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 15 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 194 

 (1896); Bri/dcn, Nat. and Sport, p. 50 (1897); Woodward Bros., 

 Natal Bds. p. 179 (1899); Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 264; Oates, Cat. 

 B.Eggs,ii, pp. 82, 364 (1902) ; Reichcnow, Vdg. Afr. i, p. 198, (1900) ; 

 Haagner, Ibis, 1902, p. 580; Whitchead, Ibis, 1903, p. 235; Sharpc, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 13 [Deelfontein] . 



(Edicnemus maculosus, Temm. PL Col. v, pi. 292 (1824) ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 1860, p. 217 [Natal] ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 288 (1867) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 388; Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 457 ; Drummond, Large 

 Game S. Afr. p. 412 (1875). 



"Dikkop" or "Thicknee" of colonists ; " Inqanqolo " of the Amaxosa 

 (Stanford) ; " Khoho-a-dira," i.e., Fowl of the Enemy, of the Basu- 

 tos (Murray). 



FIG. 100. Head of (Edicnemus capensis. 



Description. Adult Male. General colour above pale sandy- 

 rufous, thickly mottled with black which tends to form streaks on 

 the head and neck and bars on the back and wings ; wing-coverts 

 like the back; wing-quills and primary coverts black, the outer 

 primaries with a white band extending over each web ; some of the 

 inner ones tipped with white ; central tail-feathers like the back ; 

 the others tipped with black and with a subterminal band of white ; 

 eyebrows, lores, a double streak beneath the eye, separated by a 

 black band, chin and throat white ; front of the neck sandy-rufous, 

 passing into white on the abdomen, the whole marked with dusky 



