CHARADRIUS GEDICNEMUS* 
NORFOLK PLOVER. 
Generic Character. See Charadrius pluvialis. 
Synonyms. 
Charadrius CEdicnemus. Lin. Syfl, i, p. 255. 10. 
Otis CEdicnemus. Ind, Om, 2. p, 66i* 11. 
Thick-Kneed Bustard. Br. Zool, 1. 100. lb, foL 
127. Lath,Sy7u ^.p.Zo^. 1. White's 
Hiji* Selbourn^ p. 43. to 88. Mont^ 
Om. Di^. Vol. 1. 
Stone Curlew. Albinos Birds^ 1 . tab. 69. 
Great Plover. Bewick's Br. Birds ^ P/. i./>. 316. 
IjENGTH eighteen inches, weight from fixteen to twenty 
ounces : bill one inch and a half long ; irides very large, 
which, with the orbits, are light yellow ; legs long ; toes 
ihort, the outer conneded by a membrane to the middle one 
as far as the firll joint ; tail compofed of twelve rounded fea- 
thers. Colours of the fexes alike. 
This bird Is generally placed by modern authors with the 
Buflard 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 
