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

 quickly repeated. 



To the northward of our own country the Whimbrel 

 vists Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. Mr. Hewitson saw 

 it occasionally in the western parts of Norway. Richard 

 Dann, Esq. told me that a few breed annually in Lapland, 

 as high as 65 N. lat. ; and this bird is included among 

 the constant summer visitors to the Faroe Islands, and to 

 Iceland. 



Mr. Knox records the appearance of the Whimbrel in 

 small flocks on the coast of Sussex in May and June ; and 

 the bird figured at the commencement of this subject, I 

 shot at Pegwell Bay. This bird goes as far south in the 

 winter as Madeira and the line of North Africa, and is 

 seen on its passage on various islands of the Mediterranean, 

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

 Germany, 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 

 Caucasus. It is found in various parts of India ; and M. 

 Temminck says, that specimens from 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 back- 

 wards over the top to the occiput ; from the angle of the 

 gape to the eye a dark brown streak ; over that, and pass- 

 ing in continuation 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 ; inter- 

 scapulars, scapulars, and wing-coverts, dusky brown, with 

 dull brownish white margins ; wing-primaries greyish 

 black, the secondaries barred with white ; rump white ; 

 tail-feathers pale brownish white, transversely barred with 



