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THE GEEAT PLOVER 



CEDICN^MUS CREPITANS. 



Upper parts reddish ash with a white spot in the middle of each feather ; space 

 between the eye and beak, throat, belly, and thighs, white ; neck and breast 

 tinged with red, and marked with fine longitudinal brown streaks ; a white 

 longitudinal bar on the wing ; first primary with a large white spot in the 

 middle ; second, with a small one on the inner web ; lower tail-coverts reddish, 

 the feathers, except those in the middle, tipped with black ; beak black, 

 yellowish at the base ; irides, orbits, and feet, yellow. Length eighteen inches. 

 Eggs yellowish brown clouded with greenish, blotched and spotted with dusky 

 and olive. 



Though a citizen of the world, or at least of the eastern 

 hemisphere, this bird is commonly known under the name 

 of Norfolk Plover, from its being more abundant in that 

 county than in any other. It is also called Thick-knee, 

 from the robust conformation of this joint ; and Stone 

 Curlew, from its frequenting waste stony places and utter- 

 ing a note which has been compared to the sound of the 

 syllables curlui or turlui. Like the Cuckoo, it is more 



