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ROOM XII. Black-Cock (T tetrix ), Partridge ( Pcrdix cinerea ), 
Nat. Hist. Quail (P. coturnix ). 
The Coursers (Cursores, Temm.') have a moderate 
or short bill; legs long, naked above the knee: toes, 
two or three, before; no hind toe. 
Case 18 (upper part). Great Bustard ( Otis tarda ), 
Little Bustard (O. tetrax ), Courser, or Cream-coloured 
Plover {Cursorius isabellinus ). 
The Waders have most commonly a straight, com¬ 
pressed bill, of an elongated, conical form,—rarely de¬ 
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 18 (part), 23. Thick-kneed Bustard ( Char a - 
drills cedicnemus ), Sanderling (Tringa arenaria ), Oyster- 
Catcher (.Hcematopus oslralegus ), Golden Plover (Cha - 
radrius pluvialis), Dottrel! (C. morinellus ), Ringed 
Plover (C. hiaticula), Grey Sand-Piper (Tringa squa- 
tarola), Lapwing {T. vanettus), Turnstone {T. interpres ), 
White Stork ( Ardea alba ), Black Stork ( A . nigra). 
Heron {A. cinerea ), Purple Heron (A. purpurea), Little 
White Heron (A . cequinoctialis ), Squacco Heron (A. 
ralloides ), Little Heron (A. minuta), Night Heron ( A . 
nycticorax ), Bittern ( A. stellar is), Avocet (Hecurvirostra 
avocetta ), Spoonbill (Platalea 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 ( T.pugnax ), Purple Sand-Piper {T.ma- 
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. leucoplicea ), Woodcock {S. rusticola), 
Great Snipe {S. major), 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 
