CONTENTS. 



THE STILT- WALKERS (Grallatores). 



PAGH 



The BUSTARDS (Otides) :— The Great Bustard— The Little Bustard— The Houbaras— The Indian Houbara— 



The African Ruffled Bustard— The Florikin '"9 



The Coursers ( Tachydromi) :— The Cream-coloured Courser— The Trochilus, or Crocodile Watcher— The 



Pratincoles, or Swallow-winged Waders— The Collared Pratincole 9-14 



The Thick-knees (CEdiaicmi) : — The Common Thick-knee, or Stone Curlew '4> '5 



The Plovers (Charadrii) :— The Golden Plover— The Ringed^Plover— The Dotted Plovers— The Dotted Plover, 

 or Dotterel— The Shore Plovers— The Little Shore Plover, or Little Ringed Plover— The Lapwings, or 

 Peewits— The Peewit, or Lapwing— The Spur- winged Lapwing— The Lappeted Peewit— The Turnstone— 

 The Pied Oyster-catcher, or Sea Pie ,,,....■ *5" 2 9 



The Snipes (Limicola) :— The True Snipes— The Woodcock— The Marsh Snipes— The Common Snipe— The 



Moor Snipes — The Jack Snipe 2 9~35 



The Sandpipers (Tringcc) : — The Curlew Sandpipers— The Pigmy Curlew Sandpiper— The Sanderling— The 



Mud Sandpiper — The Dwarf Sandpiper — The Ruff ........... 35'4 2 



The Phalaropes (Phalaropi) : — The Hyperborean Phalarope — The Red Phalarope 4 2 "44 



The Longshanks (Totani) . 44, 45 



The True Sandpipers [Actitis) ■. — The Common Sandpiper — The Greenshank 45-47 



The Godwits (Limosa) :— The Red or Bar-tailed Godwit— The Black-winged Stilt 47-5° 



The .Scooping Avocets {Recurvirostra) :— The Scooping Avocet 5°. S 1 



The Curlews (Nitmenii) : — The Great Curlew, or Whaap— The Hard-billed Waders— The Boises— The 



Falcinels— The Glossy Ibis— The Scarlet Ibis— The White, Egyptian, or Sacred Ibis .... 51-58 



