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possessed by a New-Zealand Bird (Anarhynchus frontalis), or 
Crooked-billed Plover. Its bill is not curved either upwards or, 
asso commonly, downwards, but to one side (fig. 59, 4). 
An elegantly marked Shore Bird—with a plumage of black, 
white, chestnut, and brown,—which industriously searches for 
food amongst rocks and stones, and which, from its habits, 1s 
Fig. 57. 

The Stilt (Himantopus melanopterus). 
known as the Turnstone (Strepsilas interpres), is one of three 
species which are confined to high Northern regions. They 
greatly resemble that very familiar Bird the Golden Plover (Cha- 
radrius pluvialis, fig. 60), which is to be found, during summer, 
breeding on the high hills and swampy grounds of the North of 
England and Scotland. There are forty species of the genus— 
