THE THICK-KNEED BUSTARD — GAME. 207 



Of Game* he the monarch, whom often, of yore, 

 The hunter pursu'd over mountain and moor, 



scapulars and wings are ferruginous, mottled with brown, and 

 crossed with black lines; great quills black, white at the base; 

 secondaries white; beneath white. Rarely found in thin 

 country; more common on the European continent, particularly 

 France, where it is a delicacy. Eggs said to be green, and 

 four or five in number. 



The CEnicdemus, Thick-kneed-Bustard, Stone-Curlew, or 

 Norfolk-P lover, is arranged by Linnaeus under the genus Chara- 

 drius, or Plover ; in compliance with later ornithologists, it is 

 placed under this head. The general appearance of this bird is 

 greyish ; two first quill feathers black, white in the middle. 

 Inhabits Europe, Asia, and Africa. Migrates to this country, 

 being found here the latter end of April; frequents open hilly 

 situations, corn-fields, heaths, warrens. Lays two eggs, of a 

 light brown colour, blotched with dusky, on the bare ground. 

 Feeds on insects, worms, and reptiles. They leave this country 

 in October. The male makes a piercing shrill cry. 



* The following are now the chief of the birds in this country 

 by law denominated Game : Partridges, Pheasants, Woodcocks, 

 Snipes, Quails, Landrails, Heath-fowl, commonly called Black- 

 game ; Grous, called Red-game and Moor-game. But there are 

 laws also, now become a kind of dead-letter, for the protection 

 of the eggs of Cranes, Bil tours, Herons, Bustards, Shovelards, 

 Mallards, Teals, or other Wildfowl. There is also a particular 

 law for the protection of the eggs of Pheasants, Partridges, and 

 Swans. Bustards are also forbidden to be killed between the 

 first of March and the first of September; Partridges, Pheasants, 

 and Heath-fowl, are also similarly protected ; and destroying 

 Wild Ducks, Teal, Widgeons, or other Water-fowl, in any fen, 

 lake, broad-water, or other resort for wild-fowl, during the 

 moulting season, namely, between the first of June and the 

 first of October, subjects the offender to a penalty of 5s. 



