LIMICOL^. ( 263 ) SCOLOPACID/E. 



THE WHIMBREL. 



LITTLE WHAUP, LITTLE CUKLEW, TANG WHAUP, MAY FOWL, 

 HALF CUELEW, CUKLEW JACK. 



Numenius phoeopus. 



A bird of passage ! gone as soon as found. 



Pope. 



This bird is very rarely seen in Berwickshire, there being 

 only one instance recorded of its occurrence in the county. 

 This was in the neighbourhood of Lambden, in the parish of 

 Greenlaw, a fine specimen of a male having been shot there 

 in the beginning of September 1874.^ 



The Whimbrel much resembles the Curlew in its general 

 appearance and habits, but it is considerably smaller in size, 

 as its East-Lothian popular name of Little Whaup indicates. 



Mr. Robert Gray says it is a well-known bird on the 

 Dunbar coast in autumn when on migration southwards.^ 

 Seebohm says that, so far as is known, the only breeding 

 places of the Whimbrel in the British Islands are in the 

 Orkneys and Shetlands and the north of Sutherlandshire.^ 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 287 2 Ji/id, voL viii. p. 51. 



3 Seebohm, British Birds, vol. ii. p. 100. 



