(EDICNEMUS. 



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conspicnonsly large eyes. The bill sliglitly exceeds the length 

 of the middle toe and claw. 



Fig. 39. — To show the size of the eye. 



88. (Edicnemus bistriatus. 

 Double-striped Thick-knee. 



Bii)-liim(S hisfriatiis (Wagl.), Isis. 1829, p. 64-4 (Mexico) ; Brabourne &: 



Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 45, no. 431, 1912. 

 (EJicnemus histriatus Cab. in Sehomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 749, 1848 ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 177; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 12, 



1896 (Aunai). 

 QiJ/cnemus voci/'er Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 142, 1876 



(Quonga). 



" Stilt-legged Plover ; Corobara " (Broioi). 



Adult male. General colour above Idack or dark brown, the 

 feathers broadly edged with sandy rufous on the back and wings, 

 more narrowly on the crown of the head; tail brown, some of the 

 feathers barred with white ; a broad band of white on each side 

 of tlie crown ; forehead, hind-neck, fore-neck, and sides of face 

 .«:andy rufous with black shaft-streaks to the feathers ; breast grey 

 with dark shaft-lines to the feathers ; throat, al)ilom(Mij and uuih'r 

 wing-coverts white ; under tail-coverts sandy rufous : ])rimary and 

 secondary quills brown with white on the inner webs, some of the 

 inner primaries and outer secondaries have white on both webs. 



Total length 400 mm.,culmen 45, wing 22!), tail 11'.), tarsus 111, 

 nuddle toe and claw 30. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 211 mm. 



The male dcscrilied was eollfeled in the district of the ^lountains 

 of the .Moon. 



