(EDICNEMUS. 



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CE. CREPITANS 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



(during the breeding-season) . 



PaLjEarctic Region. 

 South-west. 



03. INDICUS 



03. GRALLARITJS 



Oriental Region. 



India and Burma. 

 Indo-Malayan S.R. 



Australian Region. 



Austro-Malayan S.R. 

 East Australia. 



03. RECURVIROSTRIS. 



CE. MAGNIROSTRIS. 



03. CARENSIS 



03. SENEGALENSIS 



Ethiopian Region. 



South Africa. 

 (" West Africa. 



I Upper Nile. 



Neotropical Region. 

 St. Domingo. 

 Tropical part. 

 Peru. 



03. VERMICULATUS. 

 03. AFFINIS. 



03. DOMINICENSIS. 

 03. BISTRIATUS. 

 03. STJPERCILIARIS. 



The genus (Edicnemus does not contain many species, and must be regarded as a Distribution 



tropical one at the present time. The species are distributed during the breeding-season %^^ s 

 as follows : — 



Temperate Eurasia . 1 



South Africa 2 



Southern Australia 1 



Temperate sjjecies .... — 4 



Tropical America 3 



Tropical Africa 2 



Tropical Asia 3 



Trojncal sjjecies — 8 



Species and subspecies of (Edicnemus . . — 12 



Distribution 



The geographical distribution of the Stone-Curlews is somewhat peculiar, and bears as regards 



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little or no relation to the zoological regions of Sclater and Wallace. In the New World Reo-ious. 



