BUSTARD. 369 



black ; tail dusky ; round the eyes mottled with black; on each side 

 of the head a black streak ; chin white; the rest of the under parts 

 dusky yellowish cream-colour; sides nearly white; legs pale dusky 

 brown.— Inhabits India. 



17.— THICK-KNEED BUSTARD. 



Otis Oedicnemus, Ind. Orn. ii. 661. 



Charadrius Oedicnemus, Lin. i. 255. Gm. Lin. i. 689. Klein, 20. 4. 



Faun. arag. 78. Borowsk. iii. 112. 6. Gerin. iv. t. 472. 

 Oedicnemus crepitans, Tern. Man. d'Orn. 322. Id. Ed. 2d. iii. 521. 

 Charadrius Scolopax, Gmel. reise, iii. 87. t. 16. 

 Pluvialis minor, Oedicnemus, Bris. i. 76. t. 7. f. 1. 7d.8vo.ii. 230. Rait, 108. A. 



4. Will. 227. t. 58. 77. Schcef. el. Orn. t. 58. 

 Fedoa nostra tertia, Stone Curlew, Raii, 105. A. 6 ?* Will. 216 ? 

 Charadrius Illyricus, It. Poseg. 26. t. 3. 



Der Steinwalzer, Bechst. Deut. iii. 197. t. 17 ? Id. Ed. 2d. 4. p. 387. t. 45. 

 Le Grand Pluvier, Buf. viii. 105. pi. 7. PL enl. 919. 

 L'Eddinemo, Get. uc. Sard. 260. 

 The Third Sort of Godwit, Will. Engl. 293. § 111 ? 

 Stone Curlew, Albin, i. pi. 69. Will. Engl. 306. 293. t. 58. 77. 

 Thick-kneed Bustard, Gen. Syn. iv. 806. Br. Zool. i. No. 100. Id.fol. 127. Bewick, 



Birds, i. pi. p. 321. White, Selb. p. 43. 88. Id. Nat. Gal. pp. 15. 50. 76. Lewin, 



Birds, iv. pi. 141. Id. pi. xxiii. 2. — the egg. Walcot, Birds, ii. pi. 163. Pult. 



Dors. p. 16. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH from sixteen to eighteen inches, breadth two feet; 

 weight seventeen ounces. Bill almost two inches long, yellowish, 

 towards the point inclining to black ; irides and eyelids pale yellow ; 

 the eye large, and furnished with a dusky, nictitating membrane, 

 coming from the external angle of the eye, by which the eye is de- 

 fended, without closing the lids : the head is large, and round, 

 somewhat flattened on the top, the feathers of it, the neck, and upper 

 parts of the body pale tawny brown, with a dash of blackish down 



* This may be doubted ; Linnaeus was deceived probably by Ray's calling it the Stone 

 Curlew ; but Willughby says, " it differs from his second Godwit, in that it hath a much 

 shorter, and slenderer bill." He adds, that this in Cornwall they call the Stone Curlew; 

 but that others call the Oedicnemus of Belon, by this name. 



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