aCDlCNEMID^. GLAKEOLID^. 155 



Order LIMICOL-ffi. 



Family OEDICNEMID^. 



Genus (EDICNEMUS, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 322 



(1815). 



(Edicnemus, from oMos = a swelling, and icvrifir] = leg ; from the thickness 

 of the proximal end of the tarsus in the young. 



(Edicnemus scolopax. Stone-Cuelew. 



Charadrius scolopax^ S. G. Gmelin, Reise durch 



Russland, iii. p. 87 (1774). 



Charadrius CEdicnemus, Linnceus, S.N. i. p. 255 



(1766). 



CEdicnemus crepitans^ Naum. vii. p. 92; Macg. iv. p. 77 ; 



Hewitson, p. 288 ; Gray, p. 135 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 436 ; 



id. ed. 8j ii. p. 465 ; Gould, iv. pi. 35 ; Hurting, p. 42. 

 (Edicnemus scolopax, Dresser, vii. p. 401. 

 The Great Plover, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 380. 



Scolopax ; see p. 164. 



A summer visitant to Great Britain, breeding somewhat 

 locally in England; a straggler in Ireland and Scotland. 

 Appears to he gradually decreasing in numbers. It is dis- 

 tributed throughout Temperate and Southern Europe, in 

 Asia as far east as India, and is common in North Africa. 



Family GLAREOLID^E. 

 Genus GLAREOLA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 141 (1760). 



Gldreola, a diminutive from glarea = gravel, from its haunting gravelly 

 places. 



Glareola pratincola. Collared Pratincole. 



Hirundo Pratincola, Linnaeus, S.N. i. p. 345 (1766) . 



Glareola torquata, Naum. ix. p. 437, xiii. p. 261 ; Hewitson, 



p. 290 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 441 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 470. 



