AVES—BUSTARD....PLOVER. 621 
PHE BPP Tle Pes van Dp 
DirreEnrs only from the preceding in being of a smaller size, being not .arger 
than a pheasant, or about seventeen inches in length. This species is found 
in many parts of Europe. It is, however, by no means common in France, 
and has only been met with three or four times in England. 

ORDER XIII.—GRALLATORES. 
Birps of this order have the bill of various forms, but most frequently 
straight, in the form of an elongated cone, and compressed, more rarely de- 
pressed or flat; legs slender, long, more or less naked above the knee, three 
toes before and one behind, the posterior one jointed at the level of those be- 
fore, or more elevated. These birds frequent the margin of the sea, or the 
banks of lakes and rivers, feeding on fish, worms, or insects. They are 
almost all sewi reeturnal. 
tuwH LONG-LEGGED PLOVER2 

Puss se vin bird, we might perhaps justly say, most singular of birds, 
whabits ‘ue «ath of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, but very rarely 
visits Engia.i. Chance alone seems to drive it to that country. It hasa 
slender, bl. sill, two inches and a half in length; the irides are red; the 
forehead, revod the eye, and all the under parts, are white; the back, the 
crown of the : ead, and the wings, are glossy black ; the®hind part of the 
neck is ma’r-d with dusky spots; the rump is white; the tail the same, 
inclining t. 7. y; the outer feathers are quite white, the legs ed; aud the 
outer and °.’.”.\le toes connected at the base. 


1 Otis tetrax, Lin. 
2 Himantopus melanopterus, Mever. The genus Himantopus has the bill long, slen- 
der, cylindrical, flattened at the base, compressed at the point ; mandibles laterally chan- 
nelled to the half of their length; nostrils lateral, linear, long; legs very long and slender, 
with three toes hefore, of which the intermediate is united to the outer hy a broad mem- 
bran2, and to the inner by a rudimentary one; claws very small and flat; wings very 
long ; the first feathers much longer than the others. 
