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Title: Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924
Subjects: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology Birds -- Catalogs and collections England London Birds -- Great Britain Catalogs and collections
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he ciiiunonSouth .Vmcricau species (Jacana jacana) (574l, have conspicuous fleshywattles round the base of the bill. AVith the la.ttcr species three vciybeautiful nestlings are exhibited. The largest species is the Plieasant-tailed Jacana (Hydropliasianus chirurgits) (577) of India and thecountries to the cast, while the smallest form is the little African species(Mirroparra capensix) (575). Family YIII. CEdicnemid-i;. Ston-l-Plovjeks. (Case 2!>. I Tlie Thick-knees, known also as Stone-Curlews and Stone-Plovers, arcallied tu the Plovers, and form a connecting link between thcni and theBustards with which they are here associated. About twelve species,grouped in three genera, arc found throughout the temperate and tropicalportions of the Old World and in Central and South America. TheCommon Stor.e-Curlcw, Thick-kuce, or Norfolk Plover ((Edicnemuscedioiemns) (578), ranging from South and Central Europe to N. Africaand India, is a summer visitor to many parts of England and resident X
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ill the soiitli-westciu counties, the open wolds and shingly partsuf the coast being its favourite resorts. The eggs, usually two innumber, are laid on tlie bare ground, often among stones whichthey closely resemble in colour. As is indicated by their large eyes,these birds are to a great extent nocturnal in their habits, and theyare of service to man in destroying numbers of slugs, beetles, field-mice, &;c. Representatives of the other genera will be found in theAustralian Thick-knee (5?/;-//?^»f« yraUanan) (580) and the Large-billedThick-knee (Ortliorliamplms niaijnirostris) (579), whieii range from theMalay Archipelago t() the shores of Australia. Family IX. Otidid.k. Bustakds. (Plate IX.) The Bustards are an Old World group of heavily-built birds, and arc (Caspslepresentcd by numerous species presenting great variation in size. -■ ^-lAll arc inlialjitants of the plains and deserts, and their stout legs andshort thick toes, recalling those of the Ostrich-tribe, enable them

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