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CEDICNEMUS. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



(Half natural size.) 



(EDICNEMUS SENEGALENSIS. 



SWAINSON'S STONE-CURLEW. 



Diagnosis. CEdicnemus pectore striato : striga pallida inter tectrices minores et majores absente : tectricibus 

 mediis cinereis brunneo striatis. 



Variations. I have been unable to detect any difference between examples from East and West 

 Africa. 



CEdicnemus senegalensis, Swainson, Birds West Africa, ii. p. 228 (1837). 

 OEdicnemus inornatus, Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 381 (1865). 

 CEdicnemus assimilis, Brehm, fide Biideker, Journ. Orn. 1853, Suppl. p. 117. 



Plates. — Unfigured. 

 Habits. — Hereinafter described. 



Eggs. — Badeker, Journ. Orn. 1853, pi. v. fig. 3. Indistinguishable from those of (E. crepitans 

 indicus, but smaller than those of typical (E. crepitans. 



English 

 name. 



Swainson's Stone-Curlew was named by its discoverer the Senegal Thick-knee, but as 

 it has since been found to range across the continent to Abyssinia the name is no longer 

 appropriate. It is perfectly distinct from all its allies, though it was confused with the 

 European Stone-Curlew by Blanford (Geol. & Zool. Abyss, p. 428) and by Finsch (Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. vii. p. 294). It belongs to the same section as the European species, having its 

 breast conspicuously streaked, but differs from our bird in many ways : there is no trace of 



