. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 78 (Half natural size.) (EDICNEMUS SENE GALEN SIS. SWJimON'S STONE-CUBLEW. Diagnosis. (Edicnemus pectore striate : strig^ pallid^ inter tectrices minores et majores absente : tectricibus mediis cinereis brunneo striatis. Variations. I HAVE been unable to detect any difference between examples from East and West Mrica. Synonymy. Literature. English name. CEdicnemus senegalensis, Swainson, Birds West Africa, ii. p. 228 (1837). QGdicnemus inornatus, Salvado
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 78 (Half natural size.) (EDICNEMUS SENE GALEN SIS. SWJimON'S STONE-CUBLEW. Diagnosis. (Edicnemus pectore striate : strig^ pallid^ inter tectrices minores et majores absente : tectricibus mediis cinereis brunneo striatis. Variations. I HAVE been unable to detect any difference between examples from East and West Mrica. Synonymy. Literature. English name. CEdicnemus senegalensis, Swainson, Birds West Africa, ii. p. 228 (1837). QGdicnemus inornatus, Salvadori, Atti Soc. ltd. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 381 (1865). CEdicnemus assimilis, Brehm, fide Bddeker, Journ. Orn. 1853j Suppl. p. 117. Plates.—Unfigured. Habits.—Hereinafter described. Eggs.—Badeker^ Journ. Orn. 1853, pi. v. fig. 3. Indistinguishable from tbose of CE. crepitans indicus, but smaller than those of typical CE. crepitans. Swainson's Stone-Curlew was named by its discoverer the Senegal Thick-knee, but as it has since been found to range across the continent to Abyssinia the name is no longer appropriate. It is perfectly distinct from all its allies, though it was confused with the European Stone-Curlew by Blanford (Geol. & Zool. Abyss, p. 428) and by Finsch (Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 294). It belongs to the same section as the European species, having its ireast conspicuously streaked, but differs from our bird in many ways: there is no trace of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London : H. Sotheran
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