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BIRDS OF BEITISH BUEMAH. 
Order XIV. LIMICOLiE. 
Family CEDICNEMIDiE. 
Genus OEDICNEMUS, Temm. 
706. (EDICNEMUS SCOLOPAX. 
THE STONE-CURLEW. 
Charadrius oedicnemus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 255. Charadrius scolopax, S. G. 
Gm. Reise Russl. iii. p. 87, pi. 16. CEdicnemus crepitans, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 
p. 348 ; Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 654 j Hume, 8. F. i. p. 232 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 182 ; Bl. 
B. Burm. p. 152; Anders. Yunnan Fxped. p. 674; Gates, S. F. x. p. 238. 
CEdicnemus indicus, Salvad. Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 380 ; Hume, Nests 
and Eggs, p. 581 ; Armstrong, jS. F. iv. p. 340. CEdicnemus scolopax, Dresser, 
Birds Eur. vii. p. 401, pi. ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 458 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 112 ; Eegge, Birds Ceylon, p. 969. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead_, crown^ nape_, sides of the 
neck^ back^ rump^ upper tail-coverts^ scapulars and lesser wing-coverts ashy 
brown tinged with rufous, each feather with a black streak down the 
middle; median wing- coverts with a broad whitish bar and the tips black ; 
greater wing- coverts white_, with a broad black bar near the tips of the 
feathers ; quills black ; the first primary with a large patch of white, the 
second with a smaller patch ; the later primaries tipped with white ; 
tertiaries ashy brown, with narrow brown shaft-streaks and the outer webs 
edged with white ; tail ashy brown, with a broad white band near the tip, 
above which the feather is blackish, tips black ; a narrow stripe over the 
eye and a broad band under the eye creamy white ; a moustachial streak 
brown edged with rufescent ; chin and throat white ; breast rufescent 
streaked with brown ; abdomen, vent, thighs, axillaries and under wing- 
coverts white ; under tail-coverts isabelline. 
Iris bright yellow ; eyelids duller yellow ; bill black, with a large yellow 
patch at the base of the upper mandible extending from the gape to the 
anterior corner of the nostril ; legs and toes pale yellowish flesh-colour ; 
claws dark brown. 
Length 15'5 inches, tail 4*8, wing 8*7, tarsus 3, bill from gape 2. 
The Stone-Curlew of Burmah belongs to the smaller race termed (E. in- 
dicus ; but the variation in size in this species is so great that I do not think 
the Indian and European birds are separable into two species on the score 
of size alone. 
This bird is found over the whole of Eurmah in suitable localities, but 
is nowhere verv abundant. 
