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STONE CURLEW. 
ill gramiiiivoroiis, is a matter worthy the attention of the enlightened 
anatomist we have here referred to, since we find that the stomach of 
those birds which are truly graminivorous, have no more muscular 
power than that of a carnivorous or piscivorous bird. 
What, then, causes the digestive faculties in the former to be so 
much more powerful (for these can digest flesh and even bone to a 
certain degree, as well as grass) than those of the latter, who are inca- 
pable of decomposing such, although the dissolution of the hardest 
bones is affected by the solvent powers of the fluid secretion in the sto- 
mach of some ? This is daily exemplified in the dog, who either 
ejects the grass, medicinally taken into the stomach, or passes it whole 
and unaltered through the intestinal canal, and yet converts into nou- 
rishment the most solid bone.* 
STONE CHACKER. — A name for the Wheatear. 
S TO NEC HAT. — A name for the Chick Stone. 
STONE CURLEW {Oedicnemm crepitans^ Temminck.) 
Otis Oedicnemus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 661. sp, 11. — Charadrius Oedicnemus,^ 
Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 689. sp. 10. — Grand Pluvier ou Courtis de Terre, Buff. Ois. 
8. p. 105. t. 7. — Ib. pi. Enl. 919. — Gerard, Tab. elem. 2. p. 173 Lerchin*" 
grave Regenpfeifer, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. 2. p. 317. — Grosser Brachvdgel, 
Naum. Vdg. Deut. t. 9. fig. 13. — Frisch, t. 215. — 11 cran Rivere, Star. degl. 
Ucc. 5. p. t. 472. — Thick-kneed Bustard, Lath. Syn. 4. p. 806 Stone Curlew, 
Albin, Br. Birds, 1. t. 69. — Br. Zool. 1. No. 100 — Ib. fol. 127. — White's Hist. 
Selb. 4to. p. 43. royal 18mo. 51. 52. and 128, — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 4. t. 141. — 
Wale. Syn. 2. t, 163. 
Provincial. — Norfolk Plover. 
The weight of this species is about seventeen ounces ; length eighteen 
inches ; the bill is almost two inches long, dusky at the point, yellow 
at the base ; irides and orbits pale yellow ; behind the eye a small space 
bare of feathers, of a yellowish-green, mostly concealed by the ear 
coverts ; the feathers on the head, neck, and whole upper parts, dusky 
down their middle, deeply bordered with pale tawny-brown ; above and 
beneath the eye is a pale stroke ; a band of the same across the coverts 
of the wings ; the quills black ; the two first marked with a broad bar 
of white across each web ; the seventh and eighth slightly tipped with 
white ; breast and belly yellowish- white, the former marked with longi- 
tudinal dusky streaks ; the tail consists of twelve feathers deeply tipped 
with black, except the two middle ones; the three outer are barred 
with black and white, the others with brown ; legs long, yellow ; toes 
short ; the outer toe connected to the middle one, as far as the first 
joint, by a membrane ; claws black. 
This is a migrative species, making its first appearance with us the 
latter end of April, or beginning of May, when the male is heard to 
make a very loud shrill note, particularly in the dusk of the evening. 
