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day, at which time its plaintive call is heard. I had for some time 
a young bird in my tent; during the day it used to remain quiet, 
but when evening began to draw on its restlessness commenced, and 
it used to run round and round the tent with great rapidity, uttering 
a single sharp querulous note. The Thick-knee feeds on small 
beetles and other insects, as also small particles of grass, taking 
down small stones to help the action of the gizzard, which is of a 
strong texture. They breed during the months of March and April, 
laying two eggs varying in colour, 2 in. in length, by rather more 
than 1,4, in. in width, of a stone colour, blotched and spotted with 
dark sepia-brown, and a few under spots of dark grey. In some 
eggs the blotches are more of an olive-brown. 
CEDICNEMUS RECURVIROSTRIS (Swains.). 
On the 5th April, 1849, I found two young birds of what I then 
took to be the young of dic. crepitans, on a large sand-bank in 
the middle of the river Bheema. At the same time I thought it a 
very strange place for a bird found in dry stony places to breed in. 
In March 1850, I shot a specimen of Gidicnemus recurvirostris on 
the same river, some distance higher up; I therefore think it most 
probable that they were the young of (dic. recurvirostris, and not 
of Gdic. crepitans. Had I, at the time I found them, known that 
the former bird was to be found on that river, I should have exa- 
mined carefully the shape of the bill. The testes in the male speci- 
men shot in March were in a turgid state. I brought away the 
young birds above mentioned ; one was much smaller than the other, 
but much more active. They were both, if I remember right, 
covered with a greyish down. For fear of their dying through not 
getting proper food, I returned them to their sandy hollow the next 
day. The gizzard of the full-grown bird contained the bones of some 
small animal. 
Genus TACHYDROMUS. 
I believe the egg now exhibited to be that of the Courier Plover, 
Tachydromus Asiaticus. Two of them were found in a field in a 
slight hollow of the ground in the month of April. Of the breeding 
of this bird Dr. Jerdon says—‘It breeds in the more retired spots 
during the hot weather, laying three eggs of a pale greenish-yellow 
colour, much blotched and spotted with black, and also with a few 
olive spots; they are deposited in a slight hollow.” The Courier is 
abundant on the plains of the Deccan, frequenting sandy bare spots 
in flocks; they have a peculiar habit of running for a distance at 
great speed, then suddenly stopping and erecting the body, then 
starting off as before. 
Subgenus GLAREOLA. 
GLAREOLA ORIENTALIS (Leach). 
I came across this pretty little Pratincole when shooting on a 
stony bank in the river Bheema. There were numbers of them 
