60 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 
PLATALEA LeucoRopIA (Linn.). Spoonbill. 
Province [IV.}. 
Subprovince (10), (11). 
Lat. 52°-53°. “Germanic” type. Not in Ireland. 
The little that is known of the Spoonbill having formerly bred 
in England is contained in the record of Sir Thomas Browne, 
who says :—“ The platea or shovelard which build upon the 
tops of high trees. They have formerly built in the Hernery, 
at Claxton and Reedham [Norfolk]; now at Trimley in 
Suffolk ” (Works, Wilkin’s Ed. vol. iv. pp. 315, 316). This 
was written about two hundred years ago, the author havmg 
died in 1682. 
Numenivs arquatus (Lath.). Curlew. 
Provinces I. E].?, V.-VIII. IX. ?, X.—XVIII. 
Subprovinces 1, 2, 4?, 15-18, 20, 21 ?, 22-35, 37-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°.. “Scottish” type, or Northern. 
Rare in the south during summer, though a few pairs are re- 
corded as breeding in Cornwall and Devonshire. 
Mr. H. Graves informs me that the Curlew “ breeds regularly 
near Charminster in Dorset, laying its eggs in the furrows of the 
fallow-land ;” but I suspect that in this locality, and also in Wilt- 
shire, the Stone-Curlew ((fdicnemus crepitans) has been mistaken 
for Numenius arquatus. 
Further north there are one or two breeding-stations in Shrop- 
shire, and Mr. O. Salvin finds the nest in Derbyshire. 
The Curlew breeds in North and South Wales, and from 
Yorkshire northwards becomes more numerous, extending as far 
north as the Shetland Islands; but we learn from Macgilli- 
vray that it does not breed in the Outer Hebrides. 
Numentus pH#orus (Lath.). Whimbrel. 
Provinces X.? XVII. XVIII. 
Subprovinees 23 ?, 35, 37, 38. . 
Lat. 54° or 58°-61°. “ Scottish ” type. Not in Ireland. 
Mr. Thomas Gough, of Kendal, tells me that the nest of the 
Whimbrel has been recently found on the mountaims of York- 
