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 'rZ/ The Stone Curlew. Oedicnemus. 



Jo6- Numb. LXIX. 



ITS Length from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail is eighteen 

 Inches, and to the End of the Claws twenty ; its Breadth when the 

 Wings are extended is thirty fix Inches ; the Length of the Bill meafuring 

 from the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth two Inches ; the Bill is not much 

 unlike a G^//'s, but ftreight, fharp pointed, black as far as the Noftrils, 

 then yellow ; the hides of the Eyes and Edges of the Eye-iids arc yellow^ 

 and under the Eyes is a bare fpace of a yellowifh green ; the Legs are 

 long and yellow, and the Claws fraall and black ; it hath only three fore 

 Toes, wanting the back Toe, all join'd together by a certain Membrane, 

 which on the infide the middle Toe begins at the fecond Joint, on the 

 outlide at the firft, and reaches almoft to the Claws of the outer Toes ; 

 the Legs are very thick below the Knees, and the upper Legs are above 

 half way bare of Feathers, which notes it to be a Water-fowl ; the Chin, 

 Breaft and Thighs are whitifh ; the Throat, Neck, Back and Head cove- 

 red with Feathers, having their middle Parts black, their Borders of aredilli 

 afh Colour, like that of a Curlew^ and is called by thofe in Norfolk the 

 Stone Curlew. In each Wing are about twenty nine quill Feathers ; the 

 firft and fecond of which have a tranfverfe Spot of white, and their exte- 

 rior Surface black; the four next to thefe black; the three following have 

 their Bottoms and Tips white, then fucceed thirteen black ones ; alfo thofe 

 next the Body are of the fame Colour with it ; the firft Feathers of the 

 fecond Row are black, the reft have white Tips, and under the Tips a 

 crofs Line or Border of black. In the leiTer Rows of Wing Feathers is a tranf- 

 verfe Bed or Bar of white; the covert Feathers of the under Side of the 

 Wings, efpecially thofe fpringing from the Shoulders are purely white ; 

 the Tail is five Inches long, confifting of twelve Feathers variegated like 

 thofe of the Body and Wings; the Guts great, the blind Guts three In- 

 ches long, and the fingle umbilical Gut half an Inch. It breeds very late 

 in the Year; the young ones have been found not able to fly in the latter 

 End of OBober ; it is found common about Thetjord in Norfolk^ and its 

 Cry is Hke that of the Green Plover, I have obferved them to run fwift- 

 ly, and when they ftop, to ftand without any Motion of either Head or 

 Body for a good ^ace of Time, not fo much as winking with their Eyes. 



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