GRALLATORES. CHAR A D RIIDJE.
T H E GREAT PLOVER.
NORFOLK PLOVER, AND STONE CURLEW.
(Ms ~ ~&dicnem,us, Thick-kneed, B u s t a r d , B r i t . Zooh v o l . r i . p . 3 8 0 . 1
Charadrius ~ >, - „ r! i ” M b ^ ' 6 r H i ‘t b 7 'D i c t . . '
i y * * ~ Th eM tea t Plover, Bewick, B r i t .B i r d s , v o h i . p . 3 7 1 .
Oidicnemus Bdlonii, Qomirion. Thich-hnde; Flem, B r i t . An.qp..U4.
(Edicnemus crepitans, „ “ ' S s i a a r , f c g t . O h » iA . v $ ; ^ 0 . '
\ >> >> » Jenyns, B r i t . V e r t . p . 1 7 7 .
;■ ><* ' * >. : Thick-kneed Bustard, G o u l b , E u r o p e , p t . x i .
» : >* . (Edicneme criard, Temm. Man. jdlOrnithu w§L- ii.
' p. 521,
■: CEb ic n e m u s . Generic Characters.— B e a k s t o u t , S tr o n g , a n d s t r a i g h t , a l i t t l e
d e p r e s s e d a t t h e b a s e ; r i d g e p f ‘ t h e u p p e r m a n d i b l e e l e v a t e d , u n d e r m a n d i b l e
w i t h a n a n g l e a t t h e s y m p h y s i s . N o s t r i l s p l a c e d i n t h e m id d l e o f t h e b e a k ,
e x t e n d i n g ' l o n g i t u d i n a l l y ' '^ f a r f e rV a r d as t h e h o r h y p o r t i o n , o p e n i n f r o n t j
p e r v i o u s ,, t e g s lo n g * s l e n d e r ; . t h r e e t o e s o n l y , d i r e c t e d f o rw a r d s , u n i t e d b y a
m e m b r a n e a s f a r a s t h e s e c o n d a r t i c u l a t i o n . W i n g s m o d e r a te - ; s e c o n d q u i l l -
f e a t h e r t h e l o n g e s t ' fe ith * e w i n g . ‘ ' h a i l g r a d u a t e d .
T h e G r e a t P l o v e r , N o r f o l k P l o v e r , or S t o n e
0 x j r l e w , 'manes; referring to 1 qualities or habits in this spe-
fies,,' is' a summer visiter ito* this -.countiy*.. arriving: here in
April, and leavkig again -at?'the* eud-oof. September. ■#' in
-0 etober,.and lilf|o fh e r summer visiters coming to us from
the^soltk I t is-a c co rd in g much.more numerous in the
' southern and counties of England than-&r to
^J^^dstv^oruto ithe north, but,* possessing great powers of
HBWB RHH this bird is not so. limited here as has
” .been supposed, and is/j^h erwise, .as will be shown, of great
- geographical' extent.
Mr, pjfh n.nap s i f m i . tells m<e z that it , is an extremely rare
- yisitant-,16 Ireland. Ac^rji-hg ,±or 'Mr.- Couch, Dr. Edward
Mooi^~and^MrjGale,ffhis bird has been killed three or four
tiifeds m'Gornwall, and is found, but is not plentiful, In Devonshire
and Dorsetshire. Peter Ryland, Esq. includes it
in his .CatalogueTof the Birds of Lancashire ; and Mr. Blyth
m en f# ||§ having received' the young from ’Worcestershire.
In Hampshir#;5; Sds|ex, Kent, Essex,; Suffolk, Cambridgeshire,
and Norfolk, it-;is common. -.The late Mr. J , D. Hoy,
in a;:-t « t i ^ ^ ^ R o ^m e ^ ^ S ^ h e r e 'ltfend part of England
where the (Edicnmus crepitans so', abounds as upon the
sandy plains ^>.Noiftdk; great numbers have been, caught
in most' seasons by the .Subscription Heron Hawks at Did-
lington Hall|j4 orfolk^-fhey have been known-to take refuge
in a rabbit-burrow when pursued byitbe Hawk.
- Mr. J..D . S a lm o n , then of Thetford, says of this species,
: “ that it is very numerously distributed over all our warrens