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SCOLOPACID.E. 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLORACIDM. 



THE WHIMBREL. 



Nnmenivs jihaopiis, Whimbrel Curlew, Pf.nn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 36. 



Scoli 



opai 



Numenius, 



The Whimbrel, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, „ Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 40. 



Whimbrel Curlew, Flem. Brit. An. p. 101. 



,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 65. 



The Whimbrel, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 195. 



,, ,, Goui.D, Birds of Europe, pt. 21 . 



Courlis corlieu, Temm. Man, d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 604. 



In its plumage, its haunts, habits and food, the Whimbrel 

 very closely resembles the Curlew last described, but is by 

 no means so numerous as a species, and is also very consider- 

 ably smaller in size, so much so that it has in some counties 



