+------------------------------------------------+ | Note: = surrounding =text= indicates bold; | | _ surrounding _text_ indicates italics. | +------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: _Plate 31. Cassell's Book of Birds_ PAINTED SPUR-FOWL____GALLOPERDIX LUNULOSA (_one half Nat. size_)] CASSELL'S BOOK OF BIRDS. _FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM._ BY THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.R.S., PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. WITH UPWARDS OF Four Hundred Engravings, and a Series of Coloured Plates. _IN FOUR VOLUMES._ VOL. IV. CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN, LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK. CONTENTS. PAGE THE STILT-WALKERS (_Grallatores_). THE BUSTARDS (_Otides_):--The Great Bustard--The Little Bustard--The Houbaras--The Indian Houbara--The African Ruffled Bustard--The Florikin 1-9 THE COURSERS (_Tachydromi_):--The Cream-coloured Courser--The Trochilus, or Crocodile Watcher--The Pratincoles, or Swallow-winged Waders--The Collared Pratincole 9-14 THE THICK-KNEES (_Œdicnemi_):--The Common Thick-knee, or Stone Curlew 14, 15 THE PLOVERS (_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 THE SNIPES (_Limicolæ_):--The True Snipes--The Woodcock--The Marsh Snipes--The Common Snipe--The Moor Snipes--The Jack Snipe 29-35 THE SANDPIPERS (_Tringæ_):--The Curlew Sandpipers--The Pigmy Curlew Sandpiper--The Sanderling--The Mud Sandpiper--The Dwarf Sandpiper--The Ruff 35-42 THE PHALAROPES (_Phalaropi_):--The Hyperborean Phalarope--The Red Phalarope 42-44 THE LONGSHANKS (_Totani_) 44, 45 THE TRUE SANDPIPERS (_Actitis_):--The Common Sandpiper--The Greenshank 45-47 THE GODWITS (_Limosa_):--The Red or Bar-tailed Godwit--The Black-winged Stilt 47-50 THE SCOOPING AVOCETS (_Recurvirostræ_):--The Scooping Avocet 50, 51