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ROOM XII. 
Nat, Hist. 
pressed or flat; legs slender, long, more or less naked 
above the knees; toes, three before, with or without 
one behind ; the latter, when present, on the same level 
as the former, or higher. 
Cases 13 (part), 23. Thick-kneed Bustard (Char a - 
drius cedicnemus), Sanderling {Tringa arenaria), Oyster- 
Catcher {Hcematopus ostralegus ), Golden Plover (Cha - 
radrius pluvialis ), Dottrell {C. morinellus ), Ringed 
Plover (C. hiaticula ), Grey Sand-Piper (Tringa squa - 
tar old), Lapwing (T. vanellus), Turnstone {T. inter pres), 
"White Stork (Ardea alba), Black Stork {A. nigra), 
Heron (A . cinerea ), Purple Heron {A. purpurea), Little 
White Heron ( A . cequinoctialis), Sauacco Heron (A. 
ralloides), Little Heron ( A . minuta), Night Heron (A . 
nycticorax), Bittern (A. stellaris ), Avocet (Recurvirostra 
avocetta), Spoonbill {Plat ale a leucorodia ), Ibis {Ibis fal- 
cinellus), Curlew {Numenius arquatus ), Whimbrel {N. 
phceopus ), Pigmy Curlew {Tringa subarquata), Dunlin 
{T. alpina ), Little Sand-Piper {T. pusilla), Knot {T. 
cinerea ), Ruff ( Tpugnax ), Purple Sand-Piper {T.rna- 
ritima ), Courland Snipe {T.fused), Green Sand-Piper 
{T. ochropus ), Redshank {Scolopax calidris), Wood 
Sand-Piper {Tringa glareola), Sand-Piper {T. hypoleu - 
cus ), Greenshank [Scolopax glottis), Jadreka Snipe {S. 
limosa), Godwit {S. leucopliaea ), Woodcock {S. I'usticola), 
Great Snipe {S. jnajor), Snipe {S. gallinago) , Jack Snipe 
{S. gallinula), Brown Snipe {S. grisea), Water-Rail 
{Rallus aquaticus), Land-Rail {R. crex ), Spotted Galli- 
nule {R. porzana), Little Gallinule {Gallinula minuta ), 
Olivaceous Gallinule {G. Foljambei), Gallinule ( G.chlo - 
ropus). 
The Birds with pinnated Feet {Pinnatipedes) 
have a moderate sized, straight bill, with the upper 
mandible slightly curved at the point; legs slender; 
toes, four,—three before, separate, with a broad scol¬ 
loped or lobate membrane on each side, through their 
whole length; one behind, on the inner side of the 
tarsus. 
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