CHARADRIUS (EDICNEMUS 



NORFOLK PLOVER. 



Generic Character. See Charadrius pluvialis. 

 Synonyms. 



Charadrius CEdicnemus. Lin. Syji, i.p. 255. 10. 



Otis CEdicnemus. Ind. Orn. 2. />. 661, 11. 



Thick-Kneed Bustard. Br. ZooL 1. 100. lb. foL 

 127. Lath. Syn, 4..p.%o6, 1. White's 

 Hijl, Selbourn, p. 43. /<? 88. Mont. 

 Orn.Bia,Fol.i. 



Stone Curlew. Albin's Birds, 1 . tab, 69 . 



Great Plover. Bezvick's Br. Birds, Pi. 1, p. ^x6» 



Lengt H eighteen inches, weight from lixteen to twenty • 

 ounces : bill one inch and a half long ; irides very large, 

 which, with the orbits, are light yellow ; legs long ; toes 

 fhort, the outer connected by a membrane to the middle one 

 as far as the firfi: joint ; tail compofed of twelve rounded fea- 

 thers. Colours of the fexes alike. 



This bird is generally placed by modern authors with the 

 Buftard family, from which it differs in not having the jugular 

 pouch- peculiar to the males of that genus, and alfo in the - 

 down, which in the fpecimens we have examined, of the 

 fpecies found occafionally in this country and fome foreign 

 ones, is of a pale pink colour \ in this it is dark ; it further 



differs 



