THE CURLEW. 



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about on the sand, picking up crabs and worms. The mother bird is so hkc 

 her mate that she can hardly be distinguished from him. 



The curlew is a very common bird, and well known on all our wastes. 

 Its home and haunts are amid the wildest spots in Britain, and to glance 







THE CURLEW. 



at it in its every-day life is to give a sketch of some wild waste or sandy 

 pasture, near the sea, and that is sometimes covered with the tide, and then 

 left bare. 



Here are gulls flying about with their silvery plumage, and cormorants 



