INTEODUCTION. 



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possessed by a New-Zealand Bird (Anarhynchus frontalis), or 

 Crooked-billed Plover. Its bill is not curved either upwards or, 

 as so commonly, downwards, but to one side (fig. 59, a). 



An elegantly marked Shore Bird — with a plumage of black, 

 white, chestnut, and brown, — which industriously searches for 

 food amongst rocks and stones, and which, from its habits, is 



Fig. 57. 



The Stilt (Himantopus melanopterus). 



known as the Turnstone {Strepsilas interjores), is one of three 

 species which are confined to high Northern regions. They 

 greatly resemble that very familiar Bird the Golden Plover (Cha- 

 radrius pluvialis, fig. 60), which is to be found, during summer, 

 breeding on the high hills and swampy grounds of the North of 

 England and Scotland. There are forty species of the genus — 



