CHAPTER IV.

GRALLATORES, OR WADING BIRDS.

_Palmidactyles_: Flamingo 317 Avocet 320 Stilt Bird 321 _Macrodactyles_: Water Hens 322 Common 323 Purple, or Sultana Fowl 324 Rails 325 Coots 326 Bald 328 Crested 328 Blue 328 Glareola 328 Jacana 328 Kamichi 330 Horned 332 Faithful 332 _Longirostres_: Sandpipers 332 Brown 334 Greenshank 334 Redshank 334 Pond 334 Wood 334 Green 334 Common 334 Turnstone 334 Ruff 336 Knot 338 Sanderlings 339 Woodcock 339 Snipe 343 Common 344 Great 345 Jack 345 Wilson's 345 Godwit 345 Curlew 346 Ibis 348 Sacred 348 Green 351 Scarlet 351 _Cultrirostres_: Spoonbills 352 White 352 Rose-coloured 352 Storks 353 White 353 Black 357 Argala 357 Jabiru 359 Ombrette 359 Bec-ouvert 359 Drome 359 Tantalus 360 Boatbill 360 Herons 361 Common 362 Purple 364 White 364 Bitterns 366 Crane 366 Ash-coloured 366 Demoiselle 371 Crested 371 Hooping 371 Caurale 373 _Pressirostres_: Cariama 373 Oyster-catchers 373 Runners 376 Lapwings 376 Plovers 378 Great Land 379 Doterel 379 Ringed 379 Kentish 380 Golden 380 Pluvian 381 Bustard 381 Great 381 _Brevipennæ_: Ostrich 383 Rhea 390 Cassowary 392 Emu 393 Apteryx 395 _Extinct Brevipennæ_: Dodo 397 Epiornis 397 Dinornis 397