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STRUTHIONIDiE. 
BASQUES. 
STB UTIITONIDsE. 
NORFOLK PLOVER, 
THICK-KNEED-BUSTARD, STONE-CURLEW. 
CEdicnemus CREPITANS. 
PLATE LXXIV. 
The Norfolk Plover, as its name would lead us to 
expect, is abundant in that county, as also in the adjoin¬ 
ing one of Suffolk. It breeds upon those extensive sandy 
flats which chiefly border upon the sea-coast; its nest is 
nothing more than a slight cavity scratched upon the 
surface of the ground; its eggs are invariably two in 
number; those figured in the plate are selected from a 
large and beautiful series, for which, with the information 
given above, I am indebted to Mr. Salmon. 
The figures may be considered as two extremes, between 
which there is a regular gradation of varieties, from the 
closely-spotted surface of the first figure, the markings 
of which have but one shade of colour throughout, to 
the more distant, deep, and many-tinted spots of fig. 2 ; 
these are both of the usual ground-colour. There are, 
however, other varieties, the surface of which is of a dirty 
yellow, with the spots upon it muddy and ill-defined. A 
variety in the collection of Mr. Salmon has the ground¬ 
colour white, slightly marked with lilac and rufous spots, 
like eggs of the Sandwich tern. 
