stone curlew

The willet, or stone curlew as it is sometimes called, is a resident species, breeding from Washington to Mexico.

Willet, wil′et, n. a North American bird of the snipe family, belonging to the tattler group—also Stone-curlew.

Dear Sir,—The history of the stone-curlew, Charadrius œdicnemus, is as follows.

The Stone Curlew seems to be fully alive to the fact that the safest hiding-place is often the most conspicuous and open one.

It struck him suddenly that Miss Latimer herself looked like a stone-curlew.