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PAINTED SPUR-FOWL____GALLOPERDIX LUNULOSA

(one half Nat. size)]

CASSELL'S

BOOK OF BIRDS.

FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM.

THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.R.S.,

PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

WITH UPWARDS OF

Four Hundred Engravings, and a Series of Coloured Plates.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN,

LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE STILT-WALKERS (Grallatores).

THE BUSTARDS (Otides):--The Great Bustard--The Little Bustard--The Houbaras--The Indian Houbara--The African Ruffled Bustard--The Florikin 1-9

THE COURSERS (Tachydromi):--The Cream-coloured Courser--The Trochilus, or Crocodile Watcher--The Pratincoles, or Swallow-winged Waders--The Collared Pratincole 9-14

THE THICK-KNEES (Œdicnemi):--The Common Thick-knee, or Stone Curlew 14, 15

THE PLOVERS (Charadrii):--The Golden Plover--The Ringed Plover--The Dotted Plovers--The Dotted Plover, or Dotterel--The Shore Plovers--The Little Shore Plover, or Little Ringed Plover--The Lapwings, or Peewits--The Peewit, or Lapwing--The Spur-winged Lapwing--The Lappeted Peewit--The Turnstone--The Pied Oyster-catcher, or Sea Pie 15-29

THE SNIPES (Limicolæ):--The True Snipes--The Woodcock--The Marsh Snipes--The Common Snipe--The Moor Snipes--The Jack Snipe 29-35

THE SANDPIPERS (Tringæ):--The Curlew Sandpipers--The Pigmy Curlew Sandpiper--The Sanderling--The Mud Sandpiper--The Dwarf Sandpiper--The Ruff 35-42

THE PHALAROPES (Phalaropi):--The Hyperborean Phalarope--The Red Phalarope 42-44

THE LONGSHANKS (Totani) 44, 45

THE TRUE SANDPIPERS (Actitis):--The Common Sandpiper--The Greenshank 45-47

THE GODWITS (Limosa):--The Red or Bar-tailed Godwit--The Black-winged Stilt 47-50

THE SCOOPING AVOCETS (Recurvirostræ):--The Scooping Avocet 50, 51