332 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Where found Cry Description. 



small black claws; it has only three fore toes, 

 which are joined together by a little membrane: 

 but has not any back toe at all. 



They are found in Norfolk, and several other 

 counties in England, and have a cry that very 

 much resembles that of the green plover ; they 

 breed very late in the year, insomuch that the 

 young ones have been found in the latter end of 

 October, scarce able to fly; they run very swiftly, 

 and will often stop, and stand without the least 

 motion of any part of their bodies. 



THE BARKER. 



THIS may not be improperly placed here, 

 from in a great measure partaking of the charac- 

 teristics of the curlew family, if it does not in 

 reality belong to it. This bird measures from 

 the point of the bill to the end of the tail, near 

 two feet, and from the point of each wing when 

 extended, upwards of three. The head and part 

 of the neck are of a cinereous, or brown colour, 

 interspersed with small black spots; the back, 

 and both the covert and scapular feathers of the 

 wings, of a reddish brown, with white edges and 

 tips : the quill-feathers black, with their outward 

 edges white. The under part of the body is of 

 a dusky white tinctured with yellow. The tail 

 is composed of dusky brown feathers, striped re- 

 gularly \viih white on boih the webs. The legs 



