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ORD. V. GEN. IV. BUSTARD. 



SPE. III. THICK-KNEED BUSTARD. 

 PI. 142. 



Charadrius cedicnemus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 255. 



Grand Pluvier, on Courly de Terre. Brif. Orn. V. p. 76. 



This bird is about the fize of the preceding fpecies : it weighs eighteen 

 ounces, is eighteen inches in length, and thirty-fix in breadth. The bill is 

 yellowifh at the bafe, blackifh towards the tip : the eyes are large, and yellow : 

 the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, of a pale tawny brown, with a 

 blackifh dafh down the middle of each feather: the under parts not unlike, but 

 much paler, and the chin, belly, thighs, and vent, almoft white : the wing- 

 coverts bordered with a white band : the outer quills black, the others edged 

 with ruft-colour : the tail rounded ; the fix middle feathers brown, the three 

 outer ones on each fide barred with dufky, and all of them, except the two 

 middle ones, marked at the end with black : the legs dufky yellow j the knees 

 thick, as if fwelledj the claws black. 



This fpecies is not uncommon in dry ftony fituations in many parts of Eng- 

 land, and is known by the name of the ftone curlew. Being plentiful in Nor- 

 folk, it has been called by fome the Norfolk plover. The eggs are two or 

 three in number, of a dirty white colour, marked all over with blotches or 

 fcratches, as in PI. XXXII. fig. 2. 



