CONTENTS Game-Birds rA(;K Capercaillie I Blackcock 4 Grouse .... 7 Ptarmigan 9 Pheasant .... 1 1 Partridge 13 Red-legged Partridge i6 Quail .... i8 [Virginian Quail] 20 Pallas's Sand-Grouse 21 Pigeons Wood- Pigeon or Ring-Dove 23 Stock-Dove 25 Blue-Rock or Rock-Dove . 27 Turtle-Dove 29 Rail Tribe Water-Rail 30 Corn-Crake or Land-Rail . 33 Little Crake 35 Baillon's Crake 37 Spotted Crake . 38 Moor-Hen or Water-Hen . 40 Coot .... 42 Crane Group Crane Bustard . Little Bustard . [Hubara Bustard] 44 46 49 50 Plover Group Stone-Curlew or Thick-knee Cream-coloured Courser Pratincole Turnstone Plover [Lesser Golden Plover] Grey Plover Lapwing or Peewit [Sociable Lapwing] . Ringed Plover . [Little Ringed Plover] Kentish Plover [Kill-deer Plover] [Caspian Sand-Plover] Dotterel . Sea-Pie, or Oyster-Catcher Stilt Avocet Curlew Whimbrel [Eskimo Curlew] Black-tailed Godwit . Bar-tailed Godwit Red-breasted Godwit Sandpiper or Summer Snipe [Spotted Sandpiper] . Green Sandpiper [Solitary Sandpiper] . Wood-Sandpiper Redshank Spotted Redshank Marsh Sandpiper] . Lesser Yellowshank] Greater Yellowshank] 50 54 56 58 61 64 64 66 69 69 72 72 74 74 75 77 80 81 84 86 87 87 90 91 93 94 95 96 97 99 lOI 102 103 103 ' The names of species which are only very rare stragi^lers to the British Isles are enclosed
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