(KDICNEMID^E. OLAREOLIDJi. 155 



Order LIMICOKE. 

 Family CEDICNEMID^l. 



Genus (EDICNEMUS, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 322 



(1815). 



(Edicnemus, from ol^os = a swelling, and Kvi]\ir\ = leg ; from the thickness 

 of the proximal end of the tarsus in the young. 



(Edicnemus SColopax, STONE-CURLEW. 



Charadrius scolopax, S. G. Gmelin, Reise durch 



Russland, iii. p. 87 (1774). 

 Charadrius (Edicnemus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 255 



(1766). 



(Edicnemus crepitans, Naum. vii. p. 92; Macg. iv. p. 77; 



Hewitson, p. 288; Gray, p. 135 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 436; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 465 ; Gould, iv. pi. 35 ; Harting, p. 42. 

 (Edicnemus scolopax, Dresser, vii. p. 401. 

 The Great Plover,, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 380. 



Scolopax ; see p. 164. 



A summer visitant to Great Britain, breeding somewhat 

 locally in England; a straggler in Ireland and Scotland. 

 Appears to be gradually decreasing in numbers. It is dis- 

 tributed throughout Temperate and Southern Europe, in 

 Asia as far east as India, and is common in North Africa. 



Family GLAREOLID^E. 

 Genus GLAREOLA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 141 (1760). 



Glareola, a diminutive from glared = grarel, from its haunting gravelly- 

 places. 



Glareola pratincola. COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 

 Hirundo Pratincola, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 345 (1766) . 



Glareola torquata, Naum. ix. p. 437, xiii. p. 261 ; Hewilson, 

 p. 290; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 441 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 470. 



