46 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



Eemarlis. Eesident, but resorting to the coast- 

 line during winter. Notes: curlew, curlew, uttered 

 something like gurleclc, gurleclc, when the bird is 

 alarmed. Local and other names : Whaap, or 

 Whanp, Stock Whaap. A very light sitter. 



CURLEW, STONE, Also NOBFOLK PLOVEK, GEEAT 

 PLOVEK, and THICKNEE. 



Description of Parent Birds, --Length about 

 seventeen inches. Bill, short compared with that 

 of the Common Curlew, strong, nearly straight, 

 greenish-yellow at the base, and black at the tip. 

 Irides golden-yellow. A light-coloured streak runs 

 from the base of the beak, under the eye, to the 

 ear-coverts, followed by a brown one running in 

 the same direction below it. Crown, nape, and 

 back of neck light brown, streaked with black. 

 Back, wings (except primaries, w r hich are nearly 

 black, with a white patch on the end of the first 

 and second feathers), and upper tail-coverts light 

 brow T n, each feather having an elongated blackish- 

 brown centre. Upper half of tail-quills of two 

 shades of brown, producing a mottled effect, followed 

 by a band of white and a black tip. Chin and 

 throat w r hite ; front of neck and breast very light 

 brown, streaked with blackish-brown ; belly and 

 sides nearly white, streaked with brown. Vent 

 and under tail-coverts creamy-white, unmarked. 

 Legs and toes yellow; claws black. 



The female is very much like the male in her 

 plumage. 



Situation and Locality. On the ground in 

 warrens, on downs, heaths, and dry commons, 

 principally in Norfolk, and Suffolk, but found in 



