43° 



WHIMB.REL Class II. 



tail twenty-five inches ; the breadth three feet five 

 inches -, the bill is ieven inches long : the head, 

 neck, and coverts of the wings are of a pale 

 brown ; the middle of each feather black ; the 

 breaft and belly white, marked with narrow ob- 

 long black lines : the back is white, fpotted with 

 a few black ft'rokes : the quil-feathers are black, 

 but the inner webs fpotted with white : the tail 

 white, tinged with red and beautifully barred with 

 black •, the legs are long, ftrong, and of a bluifn 

 grey color : the bottoms of the toes fiat and broad, 

 to enable it to walk on the foft mud, in fearch of 



food. 



177. Whim- 



B R E L . 



Phsopus altera, vel arquata Kleiner GoiiTer. Kram. 350. 



minor. Gefner em, 499- 

 Tarangolo, Girardello. Aldr 



a<v. Ill, 180. 

 Wil. orn. 294. 

 Rail fyn. a-v. 103. 

 Eckju, a<u. 307. 

 Scolopax Phceopus. Lin.fyfi. 



243'. Scopo!:, No. 132. 

 Windfpole, Spof. Faun. Suec 



/p. 169." 



Kleine Art Brachvogel or Re- 

 gen vogel. Frifch) II. 225. 



Le petit Courly, ou le Cour- 

 lieu. Numenius minor. 

 Brijfon av. V. 317.- iab> 

 27. 



Dafiis Mell u m- Spove. 

 <veg. Smaae Spue. Br. 



Br. Zcol. 119. 



Nor- 

 159. 



THE whimbrel is much lefs frequent on our 

 fhores than the curlew ; but its haunts, 

 food, and general appearance are much the fame. 

 It is obferved to vifit the neighbourhood of 

 Spalding (where it is called the Curlew knot) in vaft 



flocks 



