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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: departure, the keeper of the caravansary, who had assisted me in my search, and who had in previous years frequently taken the eggs, and cooked them as omelets along with those of the Pterocles setarius, found the nest and sent me the eggs, three in number. According to his account, the courser always adheres to this number, as indeed might have been expected from the character of the bird. It makes no nest whatever, but deposits its eggs on the bare soil in the most arid plains.' Since the above dates, however, several collectors in this country have received eggs from Algeria and Morocco. (EDICNEMTJS CREPITANS, Temm. STONE-CURLEW. The Great Plover, Stone-Curlew or Culloo as the name is locally pronounced, has also a special claim to its title of Norfolk plover (independently of its former abundance in this county), inasmuch as this bird appears to have been first made known, in a graphic form, to British ornithologists by Sir Thomas Browne, who about the year 1674 forwarded a drawing of it to the The first mention of this bird as British is by Christopher Merrett in his Pinax Rerum Naturalium, Londini: 1667, 8vo., pp. 224, wherein we find (p. 182) as follows: ? Arquata congener, a stone-curliew huic rostrum breve, accipitrinum ], pennaa milvi, Phasiano par magnitndine, Dilicatissimae avis ex agro Hantoniensi, Ds. Hutchinson, Ornithopola Londinensis. Stone-curlew is, of course, by far the oldest English name for the European thicknee, and as we have evidence of its use both in Hampshire and Norfolk for two hundred years, it is much to be regretted that it has not been generally adopted by all British ornithologists. celebrated John Ray, taken from a specimen killed near Thetford, and from which no doubt the figure in Willughby's Ornithology ...
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