Family CHARADRIID^. Genus CEdicnemus. 



Subfamily Charadruna. 



COMMON STONE CURLEW. 



CEDICNEMUS CREPITANS— rm;;»«^^ 



Geographical Distribution. — British .• A summer visitor to 

 the heaths and wolds of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, southwards through Bedfordshire, 

 Hertfordshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Berks, Wilts, Dorset, Hants, 

 Sussex, and Kent. Elsewhere it can only be regarded as an 

 accidental visitor chiefly on migration, although it has been 

 known to breed in Worcestershire, Rutland, and Notts, and a 

 few are known to winter in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. It 

 has once occurred in Scotland, and once at the mouth of the 

 Tyne, during winter, whilst six or eight examples have been 

 detected in Ireland chiefly at that season. Foreign : Western 

 Palsearctic region. Breeds south of the Baltic in the west of 

 Europe, and of lat. 50° in the east. Resident throughout the 

 basin of the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, and Madeira, 

 but is only a summer visitor to France, Holland, Belgium, 

 Germany, and South Russia. Resident throughout North Africa, 

 but much more numerous in winter than in summer. Summer 

 migrant to Russian Turkestan and West Siberia as far north as 

 lat. 48°, but resident in P.alestine, Asia Minor, and Persia, and a 

 winter visitor to the Red Sea basin and India. 



Allied Forms. — CEdicnemus crepitans indicics, a resident 

 race inhabiting Beloochistan, India, Ceylon, and Burma. Its 

 specific distinctness is barred by the presence, according to Mr. 

 Seebohm, of intermediate forms in Persia, Asia Minor, and 

 throughout North Africa. Differs from the Common Stone 

 Curlew in having a shorter wing (8 inches to 9 inches against 9 inches 



