NOTES 



Birds of Northamptonshire 



AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



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133. STONE-CURLEW. 



(Edicnemus crepitans. 



This bird, which is known as Norfolk Plover, 

 Stone-Plover, Great Plover, Thick-knee, and Short- 

 billed Curlew, as well as by the name at the head of 

 this article, is a rare straggler into our county. I 

 find in my journals only two records of its occurrence 

 within our limits as by law defined ; the first of these 

 was communicated to me by letter from the late H. O. 

 Nethercote, Esq., of Moulton Grange, in the following 

 words, dated July 11th, 1880: — "On Monday, May 

 10th, I was a-tennising at Arthingworth ; Rokeby 

 (the rector of that village) said ' I have a rare bird to 

 show you, wounded this morning by a shepherd and 

 brought to me.' He then showed me a rather small 

 specimen of the Stone-Curlew, which had been seen 



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