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CEDICNEMUS. 



Synonymy. (Edicnemus magnirostris, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, fide Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxiii. p. 231 



(1818). 



Burhinus magnirostris (Vieill.), Lesson, Traiti d'Orn. p. 547 (1831). 



Esacus magnirostris {Vieill), Gray, List Gen. if Subgen. Birds, p. 83 (1841). 



Orthorhamphus magnirostris {Vieill.), Salvadori, Cat. Ucc. Borneo, p. 312 (1874). 



Charadrius magnirostris, Lath., ~) , 

 . . \apud 



Burhinus magnirostris {Lath.), J 



auctores multos. 



Literature. Plates. — Temminck, PI. Col. no. 387 ; Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 6. 



Habits. — Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 213. It is described as preferring the low flat 



shores of the sea. 

 Eggs. — Thienemann, Vogeleiern, pi. lvii. fig. 1 (incorrectly named Esacus recurvirostris) ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, iii. p. 581. Resemble eggs of (E. crepitans, but are much 

 larger (2 - 6x 1*75 inch). 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



The Austro-Malayan Stone-Curlew may be easily recognized either by its black lores 

 or by its great bill, which is more than f inch deep at the nostrils. Its ear-coverts are 

 nearly black, and it further resembles OE. recurvirostris in having nearly uniform upper 

 parts, and a great deal of white on the innermost primaries. 



It is a resident on the coasts of the islands of the Malay Archipelago (Wallace, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 346), ranging westwards beyond Sumatra to the Andaman Islands 

 (Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 290), northwards to the Philippine Islands (Walden, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 227), and southwards and eastwards along the north coast of 

 Australia to New Caledonia (Layard, Ibis, 1882, p. 532). 



