STONE CURLEW 165 



Sutherland and Caithness," p. 209)/ and a fourth 

 at Westfield, in the parish of new Spynie, near 

 Elgin, Feb. 8, 1861. 



In Ireland the Little Bustard is only known 

 with certainty to have occurred four times : the first 

 was shot in the bog of Killough, Co. Wicklow, Aug. 

 1833 (Thompson); the second in Ballycotton bog, 

 Co. Cork, Dec. 24, 1860, as I was informed by 

 the late Lord Clermont ; the third near Youghal, 

 Nov. 14, 1883 {Field, Dec. 8, 1883, and Zool, 

 1884, p. 69) ; and the fourth in Co. Mayo, Dec. 

 1887 (Zool, 1888, p. 108). 



For a note on the food of the Little Bustard, 

 see Zool., 1895, p. 228. The weight of one shot 

 on Drayton Moor, Somersetshire, Oct. 19, 1894, was 

 2 lbs. 2 oz., or the weight of a hen pheasant. 



Order VIII. LIMICOL^ 



Fam. CHARADRIID^. 



STONE CURLEW. (Edicnemus crepitans, Temminck. 

 PL 19, figs. 1, la. Length, 17 in. ; bill, r5 in. ; wing, 

 9*75 in. ; tarsus, in. 



The Stone Curlew, Thick-knee or Norfolk Plo- 

 ver, is a summer migrant, especially to the chalk 

 districts, but is occasionally found in winter in 

 Cornwall (Kodd), Devon (M. A. Mathew), and the 

 Isle of Wight (A. G. More). These localities, there- 



^ It is remarkable that this bird was shot in June, and tliat about 

 the same time John Wolley received from a man at Thurso (only five 

 miles distant from where the bird was killed) an egg undoubtedly that 

 of a Little Bustard. 



