THE COMMON CURLEW. 



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Sandy Lavrock, or Sand Lark (the Common Sand- 

 piper) another, frequently mistaken. And, continu- 

 ing through the next family of the Tringce. or aquatic 



THE COMMON CURLEW. 



Sandpipers (the Purre, or Dunlm, the Ruff and 

 Reeve, the Knot, and other varieties of the Sand- 

 pipers), we shall constantly find one species inter- 

 mingled with another by every writer but the practi- 

 cal naturalist and true ornithologist. The Curlew 

 Sandpiper will often pass for the Purre, or Dunlin, 

 and as often for the Knot, or the Stint, while the Little 

 Stint has been described as the Ox-bird. Passing by 



