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THE STILT-WALKERS (Grallatores).

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

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

(Œdicnemi):—The Common Thick-knee, or Stone Curlew       14, 15

(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

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

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

(Phalaropi):—The Hyperborean Phalarope—The Red Phalarope              42-44

(Totani)                    44, 45

(Actitis):—The Common Sandpiper—The Greenshank       45-47

(Limosa):—The Red or Bar-tailed Godwit—The Black-winged S    tilt     47-50

(Recurvirostræ):—The Scooping Avocet        50, 51

(Numenii):—The Great Curlew, or Whaap—The Hard-billed Waders—The Ibises—The Falcinels—The Glossy Ibis—The Scarlet Ibis—The White, Egyptian, or Sacred Ibis            51-58