Plate 31. Cassell's Book of Birds
PAINTED SPUR-FOWL____GALLOPERDIX LUNULOSA
(one half Nat. size)
CASSELL'S
BOOK OF BIRDS.
FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM.
BY
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.
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THE STILT-WALKERS (Grallatores).
HE 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, orDotterel—The Shore Plovers—The Little Shore Plover, or Little Ringed Plover—The Lapwings, or Peewits—ThePeewit, 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 MoorSnipes—The Jack Snipe 29-35
THE SANDPIPERS (Tringæ):—The Curlew Sandpipers—The Pigmy Curlew Sandpiper—The Sanderling—The MudSandpiper—The Dwarf Sandpiper—The Ruff 35-42
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