COMMON THICK-KNEE. 
4^(9 
mention is made of two new and undescribed 
species of this genus, both of which are natives of 
Asia, one being found in the southern parts of 
that vast continent, and the other in New Hol- 
land: they are said to be twice as large as the 
European species. 
COMMON THICK-KNEE. 
(CEdicnemus crepitans.) 
CEd. griseo-Jiiscus, supra lineis longitudinalihus nigr leant ibus^ 
remigibus primoribus duabus nigris medio albis. 
Grey-brown Thick-knee, with dusky longitudinal lines above j 
the two primary quills black, white in the middle. 
CEdicnemus crepitans. Temm. Man. d' Orni. p. 322. 
Charadrius CEdicnemus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 255. 10. — Gmel. 
Syst.Nat. 1.680. 
Otis CEdicnemus. Lath.Ind. Orn. 2. 66l. 11. 
Pluvialis major, CEdicnemus vulgo dicta. Briss. Orn. 5. 76 . 12. 
pi. TJ.f. 1. — Rail. Syn. 108. a. 4. 
Fedoa nostra tertia. Raii. Syn. 105. a. 6. 
Fedoa CEdicnemus. Leach. Cat. Mus. Brit. p. 28. 
Le grand Pluvier, ou courlis de terre. Buff. Ois. 8. 105.pl. 7 .— 
Buff. PI. Enl. 919. 
CEdicneme criard. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 322. 
Stone Curlew. Alb. \.pl. 69 . — Will. 306. 2Q3.pl. 58. 77* 
Thick-kneed Bustard. Penn. Brit. Zool. 1.100. — White's Selb. 
Ato. 43 . 88. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 8 O 6 . Q. — Lexvin. Brit. Birds. 
4. p>l. 141. — Wale. Syn. 2. pi. l63. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — 
Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 
Great Plover. Bexu. Brit. Birds. 1. 321. 
Common Thick-knee. Leach. Cat, Mus. Brit. p. 28. 
