(EDICNEMUS CREPITANS. THE STONE 

 THICK-KNEE. 



GREAT PLOVER. COMMON THICK-KNEE. NORFOLK PLOVER. STONE PLOVER. 

 STONE CURLEW. THICK-KNEED BUSTARD. 



Bill yellow at the base, black at the end ; feet yellow, 

 claws brown ; plumage of the upper parts light yellowish-red 

 tinged with grey, longitudinally streaked with blackish-brown ; 

 anterior smaller wing-coverts cream-coloured ; tips of secon- 

 dary quills white; primaries black, the outer two xoith a large 

 white patch about the middle; tail-feathers variegated, except 

 the two middle tipped with black; a band over the eye, loral 

 space, and an elongated band under the eye, whitish, then a 

 light brown band streaked with dusky ; fore part and sides of 

 neck and breast light yellowish-red streaked with dusky; 

 throat, middle of the breast, and abdomen white, lower tail- 

 coverts yellowish-white. 



Charadrius (Edicnemus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 255. 



Otis (Edicnemus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 661. 



Thick-kneed Bustard. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



(Edicneme criard. (Edicnemus crepitans. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 523. 



Oidicnemus crepitans. Common Thick-knee. Flem. Brit. Anim. 114. 



Common Thick-knee, ffidicnemus crepitans. Selhy, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. 



I. 250. 

 OZdicneinus crepitans. Common Thick-knee. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 



177. 

 (Edicnemus crepitans. Bonap. Comp. List, 45. 



Male in Summer. — This bird, which is about the size of 

 the Whimbrel, but proportionally stouter, has the body rather 

 full, the neck of moderate length, the head rather large, 



