. A history of British birds . omen white; lowerpart of the flanks and under tail-coverts white, pencilled andbarred with blackish-brown; irides yellow; bill blackish-horny, except at the base, which is yellowish ; legs greenish-yellow. The female is a little lighter in colour, and has thecrest and ruff less developed than the male. The basalportion of most of the body feathers is suffused with avinaceous tint, similar to that already noticed in the Greatand the Little Bustards. Total length of either sex abouttwenty-six inches ; from the carpal joint to the end of thewing fifteen and a half i
. A history of British birds . omen white; lowerpart of the flanks and under tail-coverts white, pencilled andbarred with blackish-brown; irides yellow; bill blackish-horny, except at the base, which is yellowish ; legs greenish-yellow. The female is a little lighter in colour, and has thecrest and ruff less developed than the male. The basalportion of most of the body feathers is suffused with avinaceous tint, similar to that already noticed in the Greatand the Little Bustards. Total length of either sex abouttwenty-six inches ; from the carpal joint to the end of thewing fifteen and a half inches. The figure here given represents the male bird in hisbreeding plumage, and is taken, by permission, from Birds of Asia. In the African 0. undulata, the ground-colour of theupper parts is more rufous, the vermiculations are muchcoarser, the tail is broadly crossed with five bars of bluish-grey, and the elongated feathers of the crest, and on thelower throat, are white. STONE-CURLEW. LlMWOLuE. 225 (:.. (Edicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmelin*).THE STONE-CURLEW, THICKNEE, OR NORFOLK PLOVER. (Edicnemus crepitans. ffiDiCNEMUS, Temminckf.—Beak stout, strong, and straight, a little depressedat the base ; ridge of the upper mandible elevated, under mandible with anangle at the symphisis. Nostrils placed in the middle of the beak, extending * Charadrius scolopax, S. G. Gmelin, Reise Russland, iii. p. 87, pi. xvi.(1774). t Manuel dornithologie, p. 322 (1815). The name (Edicnemus, from olbosa swelling, and Kvr}) leg, was first applied by Pierre Belon, Lhistoire dela nature des oyseaux, p. 240 (1555). Temniinck adopted it as a generic term,adding the specific designation crepitans, which is both inappropriate, and con-siderably antedated by an excellent description and illustration. VOL. III. G G 226 (EDICNEMID^. longitudinally as far forward as the horny portion, open in front, long, slender ; three toes only, directed forwards, united by a membra
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