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(EDICNEMUS SG0L0PAX. 



(STONE-CURLEW.) 



Pluvialis major (Edicnemus vulgo dicta, Briss. Orn. v. p. 77, pi. 7. fig. 1 (1760). 



Charadrius oedicnemus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766). 



Charadrius scolopax, S. G. Gmel. Reise Russl. iii. p. 87, pi. 16 (1774). 



Le Grand Pluvier, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 105 (1781). " 



Charadrius illyricus, Piller, It. Poseg. Sclav, p. 26 (1783). 



Otis oedicnemus (L.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 661 (1790). 



(Edicnemus crepitans, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 322 (1815). 



Fedoa oedicnemus (L.), Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 28 (1816). 



Oedicnemus griseus, Koch, Baier. Zool. i. p. 115 (1816). 



(Edicnemus europceus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxiii. p. 230 (1818). 



Oidicnemus bellonii, Flem. Brit. Animals, p. 114 (1828). 



Oedicnemus desertorum, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 539 (1831). 



Oedicnemus arenarius, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 539 (1831). 



(Edicnemus indicus, Salvadori, Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. viii. fasc. 4, p. 371 (1866). 



(Edicneme criard, French ; Alcaravao, Portuguese ; Alcaravan, Spanish ; Tellerita, Maltese ; 

 El Karuana, Moorish ; Triel, Dickfuss, BickJcnie, German ; Oriel, Dutch. 



Figures notabiles. 



DAubenton, PL Enl. 919 ; Werner, Atlas, Ooureurs, pi. 6 ; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 215 ; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 36. fig. 5; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 172; Gould, B. of Eur. 

 pi. 288 ; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 35 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pis. 209, 210. 



Ad. pileo pallide brunneo, plumis centraliter fusco striatis : capitis lateribus pallidioribus : stria supraoculari 

 pallide cervina, et stria, fusca. a mandibula, ad regionem paroticam producta : corpore supra pallide 

 brunneo, plumis centraliter nigro-fusco striatis : remigibus nigricantibus, remigibus duobus externis 

 versus apicem plaga magna, alba notatis, et secundariis nonnulbs albo apicatis : tectricibus alarum 

 majoribus ad basin griseo-fuscis, versus apicem albis, fascia subapicali nigro-fusca notatis, tectricibus 

 medianis concoloribus sed ad basin saturatioribus : cauda ad basin pallide brunneo et fusco marmorata, 

 in parte reliqua, alba, nigro-fusco terminata, rectricibus centralibus griseo-ocbraceis fusco notatis : 

 mento et gula, albis : corpore reliquo subtiis albo, gutture, pectore et hypocbondriis cervino lavatis et 

 nigro-fusco striatis, subcaudalibus rufescenti-cervinis : rostro ad basin flavido, versus apicem nigro- 

 corneo : iride flava, : pedibus flavis. 



Juv. adulto similis, sed coloribus saturatioribus et rectricibus centralibus minus fusco notatis. 



Adult Female (Syria, 23rd Marcb) . Crown pale wood-brown, each feather with a dark central stripe ; sides 

 of the head paler, a light streak passes over the eye, and a dark one from the base of the lower man- 



