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most birds. ‘Their young are able to take care of 
themselves as soon as hatched, although they do not 
at once quit the mound. In the collection will be 
seen two examples of two genera of these birds— 
ZTelegallus lathamt, the Wattled Telegallus, a curiously 
bare-necked bird, and Alegapodus tumia/us, the latter 
an Australian species. 
Order twelve, LIMICOLIFORMES, has been 
estimated to contain 330 species, and is divided into 
two sub-orders, LIMICOL4: or plovers, and GAVI4, 
the Terns and Gulls. The first genus is that of 
(dicnemus, containing our Stone Curlew or Norfolk 
Plover, @. scolopax. Several species are contained in 
the collection, @. gval/arius, the Southern Stone Plover 
from Australia, and C. crepitans, an Indian species, 
may be taken as examples; another fine bird referred 
by some to this genus, /sacus magnirosti 1s, has a very 
wide geographical distribution ; our example came from 
the Falkland Islands, but it is found northward as far 
as the Philippine Islands. Charadrius, of which there 
are some thirty species, 1s the genus which contains 
our Golden Plover; Eni: gonys (Charadrius ) 
rufiventer is a handsome Australian example; there are 
other species of #gialtis and Aiaticula. Some of the 
genus Lodivanellus are interesting birds; ZL. (Savcio- 
phorus) pectoralis, the Australian Black-breasted 
Pewit, and the fine wattled Plover (Lodivanellus 
lobatus) from New South Wales, and a pretty little 
plover, common in the Nile Valley, known as 
Pluvianus e@egyptius, the Crocodile bird; these 
birds, like the preceding species, are furnished 
with a well-developed wing-spur. The Stilt Plovers, 
a long-legged race (Himantopus), and the Avocets 
(Recurvirostra), are both peculiarly interesting to us, 
not only from their singular appearance, as indicated 
by their names, but from the fact of one species of the 
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