ORDER GRALLiE. 807 



eighteen, and tarsi, four inches ; the 0. Grallarius, of 

 Temm. 



Long-legged Plover, or Thick-Jcnees. Oedic. Lon- 

 gipes. GeofF. Vieill. Gal. 228. Tern. Col. 386. 



Size of a fowl ; dark-ash ; black streaked ; wing- 

 band, white, black streaked ; throat and belly, white. 

 Length, twenty, tarsi, six inches ; bill, small. New 

 Holland. Ch. Grallar'ius. Lath. 



Great-billed Bustard. Lath. H. Oedic. Magnirosti'is. 

 GeofF. Col. 387, may, by the form of its bill, 

 commence a particular series. 



Bill, longer than the head, base, broad, pale-ash ; 

 chin, sides of head, belly, and tail, white ; eyebrows, 

 ears, whiskers, quills, and tip of tail, black; wing- 

 coverts, darker, pale edged. Length, nineteen inches. 

 Molucca, Java, and India ; first discovered by Gen, 

 Hardwicke, and described by Latham. 



Oedic. Recurvirostris. Cviv. 

 Not described. 



To which would be attached a neighbouring 

 species, with the upper bill rather bent. 



Char. Crassirostris. Spix. 94. 



Crown, nape, lower part of neck, back, wings, and tail, 

 dusky ; face, upper part of neck, breast, and beneath, 

 white; legs, slender, red; bill, thick. A true Plover. 



The Plovers, properly so called, Charadrius, 



Whose bill is swelled only above, has two-thirds of 

 its length occupied on each side by the nasal fossae, 



