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CURLEW. 



COMMON CUELEW. WHAAP. WHITTEEICK. 



Numenius arquata, PENNANT. 



" major, STEPHENS. 



Scolopax arquata, MONTAGU. 



Numenius. Numenia The New Moon, from the crescented shape 

 of the bill. Arquata Arched. 



THIS fine bird well comports in its native demeanour with 

 the wild places which it usually frequents, both upland and 

 lowland, and more especially as regards the former. 



In Europe, it. inhabits Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, the 

 Ferroe Islands, and Iceland. In Asia it has been received 

 from Nepaul and China, and belongs likewise to Pondicherry, 

 Japan, the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, the country 

 near the Caucasus, and Asia Minor, as also northwards even 

 to Siberia. Specimens have also been procured in Southern 

 Africa. 



In Yorkshire, Curlews are sometimes seen on the moors 

 in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Sheffield, and Huddersfield, 

 and occasionally on those near Leeds and Hebden Bridge, as 

 also near York and Doncaster. I have seen it near Burlington, 

 where it also occurs. 



In Cornwall it is described by W. P. Cocks, Esq. as not 

 common in the neighbourhood of Falmouth. It is very 

 plentiful in Norfolk. One was met with at Frensham Pond, 

 near Farnham, Surrey. They still build near Holyhead; and 

 on Wixham Moss, in Shropshire; also on some of the higher 

 grounds in Cornwall; and in Devonshire, on Dartmoor, as they 

 used formerly to do also on Exmoor. So they do moreover 



