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(EDICNEMUS. 



Yariations. It is not known whether the area of distribution of this species is interrupted, but examples 

 collected north of the Equator have shorter legs than those obtained south of the line, and 

 may fairly be regarded as subspecifically distinct. 



Synonymy. (Edicnemus capensis, Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berol. p. 69 (1823) . 



(Edicnemus maculosus, Temminck, Planches Col. no. 292 (1824). 

 OEdicnemus macronemus, Lichtenstein, Vers. Vog. Kaffernl. p. 19 (1842) . 



Literature. Plates. — Temm. PI. Col. no. 292. 



Habits. — Sharpe, Layard's Birds South Africa, p. 645. 



Eggs.— Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 457 ; Thienemann, Vogeleiern, pi. Ivii. figs. 3a, 36. 

 Indistinguishable from small and handsome varieties of eggs of (E. crepitans. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



The South-African Stone-Curlew may at once be recognized by the bold spots, or 

 rather blotches, on the upper parts, which take the form of hroad bars across the tertials 

 and wing-coverts. 



It inhabits Angola (Socage, Orn. d' Angola, p. 424), Benguela, Damara-Land, and 

 Great Namaqua-Land, the Cape Colony, Natal, the Transvaal, and the Matabele Country 

 (Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 388), and has occurred as far north as Masai-Land (Fischer, 

 Journ. Orn. 1885, p. 116). 



(EDICNEMUS CAPENSIS AFFINIS. 



BlfP PELL'S STONH-CUBLEW. 

 Diagnosis. (Edicnemus capensis tarso breviore (minus quam 90millim.). 



Synonymy. (Edicnemus affinis, Ruppell, Mus. Senck. ii. p. 210 (1837). 



Literature. Plates.— Riippell, Syst. Ueb. Vog. N.O.-Afrik. pi. 42. 



Habits.— Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afrik. p. 990. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



