(EDICNEMUS. 



87 





(Half natural size.) 



(EDICNEMUS SUPERCILIARIS. 



PERUVIAN STONE-CURLEW. 



(Edicnemus dorso vermiculato sive anguste fasciato ; striga nigra lata supra oculuni utrumque. Diagnosis. 



Sclater and Salvin figure an undoubtedly immature bird with the wing-coverts, scapulars, Variations. 

 and tertials vermiculated, but with a very conspicuous black stripe on the side of 

 the neck below as well as above the white eye-stripe. Two other examples in their 

 collection, one immature and the other apparently adult, show no trace of the second 

 black stripe. Taczanowski, who examined the skins, ignores the differences, probably 

 thinking that it was impossible that a second species could occur in Western Peru. The 

 subject requires further investigation ; but the only conclusion that can be drawn from the 

 evidence available at present is that the black band below the white eye-stripe is confined 

 to the young in first plumage. 



(Edicnemus superciliaris, Tschudi, Wiegm. Arch. 1843, p. 388. 



Plates. — Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn. pi. xxx. (young in first plumage). 

 Habits. — Stolzmann, Tacz. Orn. Perou ; iii. p. 334. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



