. An illustrated manual of British birds . d young shoots oflemon-grass, with a few grasshoppers or beetles. The specimenkilled in Lincolnshire had its crop filled with caterpillars of theyellow-underwing moih, small-shelled snails &c. The adult male has a crest of white feathers tipped with black,and a ruff, which is chiefly black, on the sides of the neck ; upperparts pale buff, finely vermiculated with black ; tail washed withrufous, crossed with three black bars, and tipped with white ; throatpale grey; breast bluish-grey ; abdomen white. Length 26 in. ;wing 155 in. The female is a little
. An illustrated manual of British birds . d young shoots oflemon-grass, with a few grasshoppers or beetles. The specimenkilled in Lincolnshire had its crop filled with caterpillars of theyellow-underwing moih, small-shelled snails &c. The adult male has a crest of white feathers tipped with black,and a ruff, which is chiefly black, on the sides of the neck ; upperparts pale buff, finely vermiculated with black ; tail washed withrufous, crossed with three black bars, and tipped with white ; throatpale grey; breast bluish-grey ; abdomen white. Length 26 in. ;wing 155 in. The female is a little lighter in colour, and has thecrest and ruff less developed. In the African Ruffed Bustard,O. utidulata, the ground-colour is more rufous, the vermiculationsare coarser, the tail is broadly crossed with five dark bars, and theelongated feathers of the crest and lower throat are white. Thelatter species, it may be remarked, is common on Fuerteventuraand occurs on Lanzarote, the nearest of the Canary Islands toAfrica. a:i)iCNKMiDA;. 515. THE STONE-CURLEW. Qldicnemus sc()L01ax (S. (t. Gmelin). The Stone-Curlew is often called the Thicknee, owing to theswelling observable at the knee-joints in young birds, which dis-appears with increasing age; while another name for it is NorfolkPlover, with reference to its comparative abundance on the extensive brecks of East Anglia. As a rule it comes to this country inApril, and after assembling in Hocks in the early autumn, leaves inOctober; but in open weather a few have been known to remainuntil December, even in Suffolk, while in the mild climate of Corn-wall and South Devon a tolerable number pass the winter. Thelocalities to which it is partial are chalk downs, open heaths, anddry sandy soils, such as are found in Dorset, Wilts, Hants, Sussex,Kent (where it breeds down in Romney Marsh as well as on theneighbouring uplands), Berkshire and on the north side of theThames, in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolkand Norfolk. I
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