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CEDICNEMIDa) 



CEDICNEMUS 



- Sportsm. 8. A. p. 120 (1892) ; FUclc, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 382 ; 

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

 (1896); Bryden, Nat. and Sjport, p. 50 (1897); Woodward Bros., 

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

 B. Eggs,n, pp. 82, 364 (1902) ; Beichenow, Vbg. Afr. i, p. 198, (1900) ; 

 Haagner, Ibis, 1902, p. 580 ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 235 ; Sliarpc, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 13 [Deelfonteiii] . 

 (Edionemus maculosus, Temm. PI. Col. v, pi. 292 (1824) ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 1860, p. 217 [Natal] ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 288 (1867) ; BucMey, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 388 ; Harting, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 457 ; Drimnnond, Large 

 Game 8. Afr. p. 412 (1875). 

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

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

 tos (Murray). 



Fig. 100. — Head of (Edicneimis 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 



