i ..'MMOX CURLEW. 



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tail-coverts white, the latter with an occasional dusky 

 streak ; legs and toes pale blue, becoming lead blue a few 

 days after death. 



Among the Curlews, the Godwits, Snipes, Sandpipers, 

 and others, the females are the largest, and, in a pair 

 of Curlews now under consideration, remarkably so : the 

 female measured twenty-six inches ; the wing twelve inches 

 and one quarter : the male in the whole length twenty-one 

 inches, the wing eleven inches and a half. The first quill- 

 feather of the wing the longest in both. 



The vignette represents the young of the Curlew, for 

 the opportunity of figuring which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of T. C. Heysham, Esq., of Carlisle. 



