SyB NORFOLK PLOVER. Clafs II. 



II. the NORFOLK PLOVER. 



Un Oftardeau, Oedicnemus. Le grand Pluvier, , Courly id 



Belon a<v. 239. terre. Brijfonav. V. 76. tab. f* 



Charadrius (Triel vel Griel.) fig. 1. 



Gefner wu. 256. Charadrius oedicnemus. Lin.fyft* 



The Stone Curlew. Wih orn. 255. 



306. Br. Zool. izji 



Raiifyn. av. 108. 



THE weight of this fpecies is eighteen ounces: 

 The length to the tail eighteen inches : the 

 breadth thirty-fix. The head is remarkably round: 

 the fpace beneath the eyes is bare of feathers, 

 and of a yellowifh green : the irides yellow : the 

 feathers of the head, neck, back, and fcapulars, 

 and coverts of the wings are black, edged deeply 

 with pale reddifh brown : the belly and thighs are of 

 a pure white: the two firfl quil-feathers are black, 

 marked on the middle of each web with a large 

 white fpot. The tail confifls of twelve feathers ; the 

 tips of the two utmoft are black, beneath is a broad 

 White bar, the remaining part barred with white and 

 dufky brown : in the next feathers the white leifens; 

 in the middle it almoft difappears, changing it to a 

 pale reddim brown, mottled with a darker : the legs 

 are of a fine yellow : the toes very more, bordered 

 with a ftrong membrane : the knees thick,^ as if 

 fwelled ; from whence Belon gives it the name of 

 Oedicnemus*. This bird is not very common in 

 England : it is found fometimes on Shirewoo.l forefi^ 

 but in greateft plenty in Norfolk ;. where from a 



f From o^iUf and xvvpnt 



fimilarity 



