OEDICNEMTJS. 



sa 



Subspecific 

 characters. 



RiippeH's Stone-Curlew only differs from its southern ally in having a shorter tarsus, 

 which varies in length from 3 - to 32 inch. The tarsus of the South-African Stone- 

 Curlew ((E. capensis) varies in adult birds from 3*7 to 4*2 inch. An example of young 

 in first plumage of the latter species in the British Museum, collected by Dr. Smith at 

 the Cape, measures 3*35 inch in length of tarsus. 



Ruppell's Stone-Curlew is a local race of the South-African Stone-Curlew, and is a Geographi- 

 resident in the Bogos Country, Kordofan, the south-western shores of the Red Sea ' :il l!| i,llm 

 (Heuglin, Ibis, 1859, p. 344), Abyssinia, and Somali-Land (Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 248). 

 It is described as frequenting the coast and the sandy plains, not ascending the mountains 

 quite as far as 3000 feet. 



tion. 



(Half natural size.) 



(EDICNEMUS GRALLARIUS. 



EAST- A USTBALIAN STONE- CURLEW. 

 (Edicnemus remigibus exterioribus quatuor versus apicem plaga alba magna notatis. 



Diagnosis. 



M2 



