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GREAT PLOVER. 



NORFOLK PLOVER. THICK-KNEED BUSTARD. 

 STOXE CURLEW. WHISTLING PLOVER. STONE PLOVEE. 

 THICK-KNEE. COMMON THICK-KNEE. 



(Edicnemus crenitans, SKLBV. JENYNS. 



' Bdlonii, FLEMING. 



Charadrius crepitans, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



cedicuemus, LINN/EUS. GMELIN. 



Otis cedicnemus, PENNANT. LATHAM. 



(Edicnemus. Oideo To swell. Kneme The leg or thigh. 



Crepitans Crackling. 



IN Europe this species is plentiful in Turkey, part of Siberia, 

 Germany, France, Spain, Greece, and Italy, uncommon in 

 Switzerland and Holland, and from thence it extends in its 

 range, by Sardinia and other islands of the Mediterranean, to 

 the north of Africa, and thence again to the south of that 

 great continent, even to the Cape; it likewise occurs in Abys- 

 sinia, Nubia, and Egypt. In Asia it is found in Asia Minor, 

 and on the plains between the Black Sea and the Caspian 

 Sea, also in Arabia, Persia, the East Indies, and Syria. 



It is most abundant on the eastern side of our island, partic- 

 ularly, as imported by one of its names, in the county of 

 Norfolk. In Yorkshire it breeds about Rossington, and other 

 places near Doncaster; also near Scarborough. It used to do 

 so regularly on the wolds, but never abundantly in more recent 

 times. In Cornwall it is rare, but has occurred near Gwyllyn 

 Vase; one also in the parish of St. Lev an, near the Land's 

 End; others in Devonshire and Lancashire. In Bedfordshire 

 one was met with on March 29th., 1851. In Oxfordshire 

 it has been known near Henley-on-Thames; also in Dorsetshire. 

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