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is said to resemble the words tetty, tetty, tetty, tet, quickly 

 repeated. 



To the northward of our own country the Whimbrel visits 

 Denmark and Sweden. Mr. Hewitson saw it occasionally in 

 the western parts of Norway. Richard Dann, Esq. tells me 

 that a few breed annually in Lapland, as high as 65° N. 

 lat. ; and this bird is included among the constant summer 

 visiters to the Faroe islands, and to Iceland. 



The Whimbrel is found as far south in the winter as Ma- 

 deira, and the line of North Africa, and is seen on its passage 

 in Italy, Genoa, Spain, Provence, France, Holland, and Ger- 

 many, but is more common in Holland, than in France or 

 Germany. It was found by M. Menetries, the Russian 

 Naturalist, on the borders of rivers in the Province of Cau- 

 casus, and is common in various parts of India. Mr. Gould 

 mentions having received specimens from the Himalaya 

 mountains, and M. Temminck says, that specimens from 

 Bengal and Japan do not differ from those of our European 

 bird. 



The beak is brownish black, pale brown at the base of the 

 under mandible ; the irides dark brown ; the top of the head 

 dark brown, with a light brown streak passing backwards over 

 the top to the occiput ; from the angle of the gape to the 

 eye a dark brown streak ; over that, and passing in con- 

 tinuation over the eye and the ear-coverts, is a light coloured 

 streak ; the feathers of the neck, all round, dull brownish 

 white, with dark central streaks ; interscapulars, scapulars, 

 and wing coverts dusky brown, with dull brownish white 

 margins ; wing primaries greyish black, the secondaries barred 

 with white ; rump Avhite ; tail feathers pale brownish white, 

 transversely barred Avith darker brown ; chin white ; chest 

 pale brown, each feather with a dark brown central streak ; 

 breast and belly nearly white ; flanks dull white, barred 

 transversely with brown ; under tail coverts nearly white, 



