358 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



Sweden, is now very rare, but not extinct. A summer 

 migrant. 



166. O. TETEAX, L. Lilla Trappen. D. 



Length, about 1^- ft. Beak, from gape, l in. 

 Colour, head black, with rusty yellow spots. Wing 

 feathers white. Mantle, in the female, finely speckled ; 

 in the male, finely watered with black, on a chestnut 

 ground. Neck, in the male, black, with two broad 

 white cross bands ; in the female, speckled. 

 Is only accidental in the north. - 



167. 0. HOUBAEA, L. Krage Trappen. D. 



Length, 26 in. Beak long, much compressed at the 

 root. A long tuft of white feathers on the crown 

 of the head, and on either side of the neck, a bushy 

 tuft of long black and white pendent feathers. Upper 

 parts rusty brown, barred with darker brown. Sides 

 of the neck grey, under parts white. Legs dark green. 

 Eye reddish. 



Has been once shot at Flensburg, in Denmark, and once 

 on Gotland. Must not be confounded with Macqueen's 

 bustard, 0. Macqueenii, Gray, which has once been killed 

 in Britain. Figured by Dr. Bree as the t ' ruffed bustard/ 7 

 The pratincole and the stone curlew are included in the 

 Danish fauna. 



Gen. Charadrius, L. 



Beak straight, shorter than the head ; head large, with 

 high forehead, and large eyes ; nostrils small, long, opaque, 

 basal -, nasal channel extending two-thirds of the length of 

 beak ; tarsi slender ; outer and middle toes connected by 

 a membrane; wings long, first feather longest; tail square 

 or rounded; twelve feathers. All lay four eggs, on the bare 

 ground, except the dotterel. 



A. With no hind toe. 



168. CHAEADEIUS HTATICULA, L. Storre Strandpipare. The 



Ring Dotterel. D. F. 



Length 7- in. ; the outer half of the beak black, the 

 inner half as well as the legs yellow ; all the wing 



