. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . x. Orn. p. 60). The American Stone-Curlews differ from their Old-World allies in the distribution ofthe white on the primaries. Instead of a subterminal bar across both webs of the first andsecond, and sometimes the third and fourth primaries, the white is confined to the innerweb and extends almost to the base of the feather. (EDICNEMUS BISTRIATUS DOMINICENSIS, STONE-CURLEW. Diagnosis. CEdicnemus bistriatus magnitudine minima. CEdicnemus dominicen
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . x. Orn. p. 60). The American Stone-Curlews differ from their Old-World allies in the distribution ofthe white on the primaries. Instead of a subterminal bar across both webs of the first andsecond, and sometimes the third and fourth primaries, the white is confined to the innerweb and extends almost to the base of the feather. (EDICNEMUS BISTRIATUS DOMINICENSIS, STONE-CURLEW. Diagnosis. CEdicnemus bistriatus magnitudine minima. CEdicnemus dominicensis, Cory, Journ. Boston Zool. Soc. ii. p. 46 (1883). Plates.———Unknown. Subspecificcharacters. The Stone-Curlew appears to be, from the description, only a dwarf raceor island form of (E. bistriatus. The dimensions of the two forms are as follows:— Geographi-cal distribu-tion. WingTail .TarsusBill . CE. bistriatus. CE. dominicensis. 10 inches. 8J inches. 44 3f „ 4^- ^4 jj 3f „ 1^ u x 2 » It is only known from the island of St. Domingo. (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, tertials vermiculated, but with a very conspicuous black stripe on the side ofthe neck below as well as above the white eye-stripe. Two other examples in theircollection, one immature and the other apparently adult, show no trace of the secondblack stripe. Taczanowski, who examined the skins, ignores the differences, probablythinking that it was impossible that a second species could occur in Western Peru. Thesubject requires further investigation ; but the only conclusion that can be drawn from theevidence available at present is that the black band below the white eye-stripe is confinedto the you
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