. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . affinis, Ruppell, Mus. Senck. ii. p. 210 (1837). Literature. Plates.—Ruppell, Syst. Ueb. Vog. pi. 42. Habits.—Heuglin, Orn. p. —Unknown. OEDICNEMTJS. sa Subspecificcharacters. RiippeHs Stone-Curlew only differs from its southern ally in having a shorter tarsus,which varies in length from 3-0 to 32 inch. The tarsus of the South-African Stone-Curlew ((E. capensis) varies in adult birds from 3*7 to 4*2 inch. An example of youngin first plumage of the
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . affinis, Ruppell, Mus. Senck. ii. p. 210 (1837). Literature. Plates.—Ruppell, Syst. Ueb. Vog. pi. 42. Habits.—Heuglin, Orn. p. —Unknown. OEDICNEMTJS. sa Subspecificcharacters. RiippeHs Stone-Curlew only differs from its southern ally in having a shorter tarsus,which varies in length from 3-0 to 32 inch. The tarsus of the South-African Stone-Curlew ((E. capensis) varies in adult birds from 3*7 to 4*2 inch. An example of youngin first plumage of the latter species in the British Museum, collected by Dr. Smith atthe Cape, measures 3*35 inch in length of tarsus. Ruppells Stone-Curlew is a local race of the South-African Stone-Curlew, and is a Geographi-resident in the Bogos Country, Kordofan, the south-western shores of the Red Sea :il l!| i,llm(Heuglin, Ibis, 1859, p. 344), Abyssinia, and Somali-Land (Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 248).It is described as frequenting the coast and the sandy plains, not ascending the mountainsquite as far as 3000 feet. (Half natural size.) (EDICNEMUS GRALLARIUS. EAST-A USTBALIAN STONE- CURLEW.(Edicnemus remigibus exterioribus quatuor versus apicem plaga alba magna notatis. Diagnosis. M2 Variations. 84 (EDICNEMUS. Gould (Handbook to the Birds of Australia, ii. p. 212) remarks that on the north coast ofAustralia the Stone-Curlews have longer tarsi and shorter wings, but the few exampleswhich I have been able to examine do not confirm this idea. Synonymy. Charadrius grallarius, )TJ7 T, „ „ , ,.,..,„ ° > Latham, Index Urn. Suppl. pp. lxvi, lxvn (1801). Oxicirficlrius irciicituSj CEdicnemus longipes, Geoffroy ,fide Vieillot, N. Diet. dHist. Nat. xxiii. p. 232 (1818). Charadrius giganteus (Licht.),~) „ 7 rrr , r . ,„„ _,,. ■ ♦ t- J \fide Wa9ler, Ins, 1829, p. 647. CEdicnemus giganteus, Licht., J CEdicnemus grallarius {Lath.), Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 535 (1
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