CURLEW. 12] 
186. BLACK STORK—(Ciconia nigra). 
The Black Stork has occurred much more rarely than its white 
congener. 
187. SPOON-BILL—(Platalea leucorodia). 
A bird which is said to have bred ia former days in our country, 
but which has certainly become, for a long time past, a mere 
visitor, and not a frequent one. 
---: 188. GLOSSY IBIS—(Ldis fuleinellus). 
This visitor has been met with in late years, even in some 
small numbers. There was one about the moors in this district 
four or five years since, which I saw myself and heard of as seen 
in the same neighbourhood by others; and about the same time I 
noticed that birds of the same species had been observed in 
several other parts of Yorkshire, and elsewhere. Stillit is only a 
visitor, and a casual one. 
IV.—SCOLOPACID A. 
189. CURLEW—(Numenius arquata). 
Whaup.—As commona bird as almost any along the whole of the 
British coasts. Sometimes singly and sometimes in groups of eight 
or ten, it may be seen along the line of oozy shores or the sandy 
flats which are laid bare by the receding tide. When the water is 
sufficiently high to cover all its feeding grounds, it betakes itself 
to some higher ground in the vicinity, to rest durmg those hours 
of inactivity in food-search. When removing from one place, or 
part of the coast, to another, it usually flies in long lines, which 
however scarcely maintain the same degree of accuracy as in the 
case of Wild Geese or other line-flying wild fowl. On the arrival 
of spring the Curlews leave the coast and retire to their breeding 
haunts in the hills of the extreme north of England. the highest 
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