feathers white at the base, and black for the remainder of
their length; nape and base of the neck, whitish ; on the
sides of the neck, a series of plumés gradually increasing in
ièhgth, the Tipper two-thirds of which are black; of -the remainder
some are white, others black, and some both black
and white ; upper ' surface sandy-buff, minutely“ pencilled
with black, the pencillings increasing in breadth and intensity
here and there so as to form irregular bars across- the
feathers, thèse darker markings «becoming larger and more
conspicuous as they proceed posteriorly ; rump without these
darker pencilling#; upper tail-èovérts and tail similarly
marked and crossed by bands of grey, which increase’in-size
towards the tip ; thé tail is, moreover, washed- with -rufous,-
and terminated with huffy-white wing-Coverts- buffy-white,
pencilled with black ; first five primaries white- at th e ' base,
and black ffor the remainder of their length“; - th e r^||!ber
primaries and the secondaries black, with a transverse mark
of white at the ’ tip ; throat whijtg; neck and b re a st'h g b t
grey; updersurface off'the wing and abdomen white:; lower
part of the flanks and under taiheoverts wbi-te, pencilled^and
barred with blackish-brown; gjgÉË| ‘ yellow ; bill blackish-
horny, except- at the base, which is yellowish^Üe^i greenish-
yellow. '
: The feMale is a little- lighter in coteffr,- and haWthe
crest and ruff less ’ developed than the -male. ’ The béfs'al
portion of most of fh'e-.body feathers -is suffused with .a
vinaceous tint, similar* to that already noticed in the (treat
and the Littie Bustards. Totaff length of'either'kéx.afeôùt
twenty-six inches"; from Jthe carpal- joihtto the ehd" of ;the
wing fifteen and a half inches;
The figure here, given répréséhtsH the male bird in his
breeding plumage, and is taken, l^^èi^is&ien^^fréèa^^Mr.
Gould’s ‘ ‘Birds of-Asia.’
In the African Ô.: imdulata, -the- “grohhdwfJisur of; the
upper parts is more rufous, the- -vermihulatiohs-’ are- rcruch
coarser, the tail is broadly eroësédwith ’ five bars of bluish-
grey, and the elongated‘-feathers' off the-'c r e s t , and oh the
lower throat, -are white. •
XEjhcneSijjs csaQLOPAX^S. G. Gmeliii*^
THE STONE-CURLEW,t1
• >'RHIÖKNÉE, OR NORFOLK PLOVER.
~ (pEdiqnemus crepitans.
(Edicsbmus, ^etnmin^ef.—Beak's'tonfc,^^ ^ and straight, a little depressed
at’the* base'i ridge‘6f-the uppef- rnandlble^elev.aftfe'd, «nder mandible -‘with all
angle at the symphisis. -Nostrils plaeed in t the middle of the beak*, extending
V fa a r a d r iu s gcaloficix, 13,. ’ (1. rGmelin, Reise »kusgTand, iii. P
lAW). ‘ § 3 Z
I Manuel d’omithblogie, The n am eWd£rnimm>mmoMms
a swelling; and > KvrjjXif leg, -was tijst ^ f li^ ^ ? ^ j- r e .^ B ^O B ;;;L ’histoire, de
iamfere dgs^seaua,,’ m 240 05.55L 4 V]nmin^|dopte4 it as
adding the speTSic'^^gnAtfeh crepitans, -which 'Jc botfly mappropriatq, a n ^ o ^
Biderably antedated by ah ''bxctheiit desSripSon ‘and lUfu^r&rti'Oitf.
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