CEDICNEMrS. 



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CE. CREPITANS 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



(during the breeding-season). 



Pal^arctic Region. 

 . , South-west. 



ffi. INDICCS 



CE. GBALLARIUS 



CE. CAPENSIS 



CE. SENEGALENSIS 



Oriental Region. 



India and Burma. 

 Indo-Malayan S.R. 



Australian Region. 



Austro-Malayan S.R. 

 East Australia. 



Ethiopian Region. 



South Africa. 

 West Africa. 

 Upper Nile. 



Neotropical Region. 

 St. Domingo. 

 TYopical part. 

 Peru. 



CE, RECUaVIROSTRIS. 



CE. MAGNIROSTRIS. 



CE. VERMICULATUS. 

 CE. AFFINIS. 



CE. DOMINICENSIS. 

 CE. BISTRIATUS. 

 CE. SUPERCILIARIS. 



The genus (Edicnemus does not contain many species, and must be regarded as a Distribution 



tropical one at the present time. The species are distributed during the breeding-season gfi^ate'^ ^ 

 as follows : — 



Temperate Eurasia 1 



South Africa 2 



Southern Australia 1 



Temperate species . . . . — 4 



Tropical America 3 



Tropical Africa 2 



Tropical Asia 3 



Tropical species — 8 



Species and subspecies of CEdicnemus . . — 12 



Distribulion 

 The geographical distribution of the Stone-Curlews is somewhat peculiar, and bears aa regards 



little or no relation to the zoological regions of Sclater and Wallace. In the New World Uegious. 



