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The Brown Curlew. 



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m H IS is about the fize of the Wl 



Curlew. It has the fl 



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bilL with red 



nd the bafis of 



it, and eyes as the White Curlew. 

 The reft of the head and neck 

 of a mix'd gray. The upper part 

 of the back, wings, and tail, are brown. The 



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Son bee ejl fait de la 



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part of the back and rump are white, as 



is the under part of the body. The legs are red 



corlieu blaitc. 



jneiiie faqon que le Jien \ ^ il 

 lui du rouge a la bafe de fo?i bee, &^ 

 auxyeux. Le rejie defa tete, &' fon 

 coufont d\m gris mele. Le dejfus da 

 J on dos, defes ailes, ^ de fa queue eft bruri. Le bas 

 de fon dosy &' fan croupion font blancs, de meme que 

 le dejfous de fon corps. Ses jambes font rougedtres^ 



il efl de la meme 



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celles du corlieu blanc 



difh, like thofe of the White, as is like wife its forme.^' de la meme grandeur que lui. La grahde ref 



fliape and fize. This near refemblance in them femblance, quit y a entre ces Oifeaux, me fit foupqbnner 



made me fufped they differed only in fex, but by ijii'ils nedifferoientque par lefexe; mais enles ouvrant 



opening them, I found tefticles in bdth the kinds, j^ trouvai des teflicules dam I'une &' dans V autre 



The flefli of this is dark, having not that yellow 



La chair de celui-ci efl b 



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which 



the White Curlew. They both J^'^'^^^ ^^ ^^ trouve au corlieu blanc. lis fe nourriffi 



feed and aflbciate in flocks, yet the White are 



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twenty times more numerous than the Brown kind. 



nfemble, &' 



joignent en troup 



'.pendant les 



In the gizzard 



Crawfifh. Both thefe kincj 



accompanied with the Wood Pelicans, come an- 

 nually about the middle of September , and frequent 



blancs font vingt fois plus nombreux que les bfuns 



On leur a trouve des ecrivijjes dans les getter. Ces 



deux efpeces d' Oifeaux viennent tous les ans, en grandes 



voleeSi avec les Pelicans America 



le milieu de 



Septemhre ; ^ frequentent les prairies marecageufe 



the watery Savannas in numerous flights, continuing Us y demeurent^ environ fix fern aines : Us fe 



about fix weeks, and then 



arid are no more 



feen until that time next year. In many of the Hens de Vannee ft 

 of the White kind were clufters of eggs ; fr 



om 



which 



I imagine they retire fomewhere South to breed* ^imagine quils ft 



les voit plus jufquau me?ne temps 



'e. .■ Dans plufieurs des femelles de 



Vefpece blanche U y avoit des grapes d'ceufs, d'ou fe 



Carolina, at that time of the year, would probably 

 be too cold for the work of Nature," it 



peu plus vers le Sud^ 



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ipparemment 



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the fame latitude, in that 



part 



colder in 



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World, than 



appear in the feathers of the Cock and Hen 



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Europe. Very little or rio differenc 



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pour y pondre. La Caroline, fe 

 trap froide; en cette faifon, pour cette o per at f on de la 

 Nature\ car it y fait beaucoup plus froid quen aucun 

 endroit de rEmo^Cifitue a Id meme latitude. II nv 

 a point ^ ou tres peu de difference entre les plumes du 



maky 



&^ celles de la femell 



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Arum Sagttaria folio angujioj acumine ^ aurkults acUttfTmis 



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HIS Plants grows in ditches, and fhallow water^ fo \\\t 

 height of three or four feet, with many arrow-headed 

 leaves, on long fucculent ftalks fpringing from a tuberous 

 root, from which alfo fhoot forth large round ftalks, at the 

 end of each of which grows, in an hanging pofture, a large 

 roundifh green feed veflel or capfula, containing many globular 

 green berries of different bignefs, fome of the fize of Muiket 



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ifieurs fe 



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i en point es defedes, attach^es a des tiges longues& fucculentes, 

 Jortent d'une racine tubereufe, d'oii il sen eleve d'autres, groffts 



porte a Jon extremiti une grande capfule 



offe 



nferme plufieurs bayes vertes, rondes, & de diffe 



bullets, and others but half as big ; this feed veflel (which plus petites 



cent de po 



femences^qui fc 



deux coteSy 



is about the fize of an Hen*s egg) when mature, opens on 



both fides, and difclofes the feeds, which are green and 



tender when ripe. I have feen the Indians boil them with 



their Venifon. They were excefBve hot and aftringent in my fembloient excejjivement chaudes, & ad/l 



mouth, while green, but when boiled they loft thofe qualities, ma bouche toutes vertes-, mats \p 



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ipfuky qui eji de la groffe 



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J'ai mi les Indiens les fair e bouillir avec leur venaifon. Elks me 



and were very palatable j and, as they faid, wholefome. They 

 are ripe in 'July. 



'jjent au mois de 7; 



font fort f 



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