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GREAT PLOVER. 
NORFOLK PLOYER. THICK-KNEED BUSTARD. 
STONE CURLEW. WHISTLING PLOYER. STONE PLOYER. 
THICK-KNEE. COMMON* THICK-KNEE. 
(Edicnemus crepitans, 
Belton ii, 
Charadrius crepitans , 
“ cedicnenius, 
Otis cedicnemus , 
Selby. Jenyns. 
Fleming. 
Montagu. Bewick. 
Linnaeus. Gmelin. 
Pennant. Latham. 
(Edicnemus* Oideo — To swell. Kneme— The leg or thigh. 
Crepitans —Crackling. 
In Europe this species is plentiful in Turkey, part of Siberia, 
Germany, France, Spain, Greece, and Italy, uncommon in 
Switzerland and Holland, and from thence it extends in its 
range, by Sardinia and other islands of the Mediterranean, to 
the north of Africa, and thence again to the south of that 
great continent, even to the Cape; it likewise occurs in Abys¬ 
sinia, Nubia, and Egypt. In Asia it is found in Asia Minor, 
and on the plains between the Black Sea and the Caspian 
Sea, also in Arabia, Persia, the East Indies, and Syria. 
It is most abundant on the eastern side of our island, partic¬ 
ularly, as imported by one of its names, in the county of 
Norfolk. In Yorkshire it breeds about Rossington, and other 
places near Doncaster; also near Scarborough. It used to do 
so regularly on the wolds, but never abundantly in more recent 
times. In Cornwall it is rare, but has occurred near Gvvyllyn 
Vase; one also in the parish of St. Levan, near the Land’s 
End; others in Devonshire and Lancashire. In Bedfordshire 
one was met with on March 29th., 1851. In Oxfordshire 
it has been known near Henley-on-Thames; also in Dorsetshire. 
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