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WHIMBREL. 



LITTLE WHAAP. WHIMBREL CUELEW. 



Numenius ptueopus, PENNANT. 



" hudsonicus, BRISSON. 



" minor, BRISSON. 



Scolopax phceopus, MONTAGU. 



Phceopus arquatus, STEPHENS. 



Arquata minor, KAY. 



Numenius. Numenia The New Moon, from the crescented shape of the bill. 

 Phceopus. Phaios Dark. Ops The countenance. 



THIS species is very closely allied to the Curlew, but is not 

 nearly so numerous. 



Northward it visits Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland, 

 the Ferroe Islands, and Iceland; and to the south is seen in 

 Italy, Spain, France, Friesland, Holland, Germany, and the 

 Islands of the Mediterranean. In India it has been found 

 in the Himalayan range, Bengal, Java, and the region of 

 the Caucasus; and in Africa, in the northern parts; as also 

 in Madeira. America is given too as one of its countries; 

 so is also New Holland. 



These birds are met with not uncommonly on the moors 

 above Sheffield; also, though rarely, near Hebden Bridge, 

 Doncaster, Halifax, and Huddersfield. I once shot one in 

 Dorsetshire, on the sea-coast, near Charmouth. It was a 

 very low tide, and I had to get near the bird as well as I 

 could over the open shore, there being no cover of any 

 sort. In the end, however, I succeeded, much to my self- 

 gratulation at the time. In Norfolk the Whimbrel is common ; 

 one was shot at Sutton Marsh, near Wisbeach, on the 9th. 

 of May, 1850. 



