STONE-CUELEW oe THICK-KNEE. 



(EDICNEMUS SCOLOPAX {S. G. Gmelin). 



Charadrius scolopax, S. G. Gmelin, Reise durch Russland^ iii. 

 p. 87 (1774). 



Charadrius oedicnemus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 255 (1766). 

 CEdicnemus crepitans, Naum. vii. p. 92 ; Macg. iv. p. 77 ; 



Hewitson, i. p. 288. 

 CEdicnemus scolopax, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 225 ; Dresser, vii. 



p. 401. 



(Edicneme criard, French ; Triel, German ; Alcaravdn, 

 Spanish. 



This bird is a vernal visitor to those parts of our 

 country that it affects for breeding purposes, but in 

 Cornwall it is said to appear in autumn, and frequently 

 remains on the moorlands of that county throughout the 

 winter. The districts chiefly favoured by this species 

 during the summer are chalk-downs, sandy warrens, 

 heaths, and extensive fallows, and it is only to be met 

 with casually and uncommonly upon heavy lands, gene- 

 rally at the periods of migration. We found it in some 

 numbers on the Wiltshire downs between Salisbury and 

 Devizes in the early spring, and took several with the 

 Falcons of the " Old Hawking Club." In West Norfolk, 



