212 LITTLE BUSTARD. STONE-CURLEW. 



Order— ALECTORIDES. 



[Family — G ruid^.] 



[Genus — Grus.] 



[Grus communis — Crane.] 



A rare straggler to Britain. 



Family— OTIDID^. 



Genus— OTIS. 



[Otis tarda — Great Bustard.] 



Formerly a resident in England, but now exterminated, and only 



a rare straggler. 



OTIS TETRAX— Little Bustard. 



This very rare bird seems to have visited Herefordshire on one 

 occasion. There is a specimen in the Hereford Museum from the 

 collection of the late Mr. Moss, of Ross, who stated that it was shot 

 in the neighbourhood of Dorstone. Nothing further is known of it. 



[Genus — Houbara.] 



[HoUBARA macqueeni — Macquecn's Bustard.] 



[Oris 7?iacqueeni — Yarrell^ 



Once occurred in Lincolnshire. 



Order— LIMICOL^. 



Family— CEDICNEMID^. 



Genus— CEDICNEMUS. 



CEDICNEMUS SCOLOPAX— Stone-Curlew. 



Thicknee or Norfolk Plover, Great Plover, Thick-kneed Bustard, 

 Whistling Plover, are all synonyms of this bird. A wanderer has 

 once visited Herefordshire. Mr. R. M. Lingwood in his notes 

 says, "Seen in the flesh at Baker's (a bird-stuffer in Hereford), 

 1854, the bird killed at Lyde," near Hereford. 



