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CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



PIC.MY CUHLEW. 



Tringa subarquata, FLEMING. SELBY. 



JVumenins pyyma:ns t PENNANT. 



Scolopax pygmccus, MONTAGU. 



Tringa ? Subarquata. Sub Diminutive. Arquata Arched. 



Itf Europe, this species spreads from Sardinia and the 

 southern parts of the continent, to France, Holland, where 

 it breeds, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, and thence to the 

 Arctic regions. In Asia, it belongs to the neighbourhood of 

 the Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal, Persia and the Indian 

 Archipelago; and in Africa extends in its range from Eirypt 

 and the northern shores to Senegal, and so on to the Cape. 

 In America, it reaches from the high northern latitudes and 

 Canada, to Georgia and Florida in the south. 



It was formerly considered as a rare visitor to our shores, 

 but a few pairs are now believed to breed occasionally. One 

 of the first recorded was obtained near Sandwich, in Kent; 

 another, in August, near Greenwich, as referred to by Pennant; 

 Mr. Gould shot a pair near Sandwich, in the last week of May, 

 1833. Mr. Heysham, of Carlisle, obtained a male in full 

 summer plumage, on Rock Cliff, Salt-marsh, on the 27th. of 

 the same month, and in the autumn of the following year 

 a considerable flock was seen there. Others have been 

 procured in Norfolk, where it is not uncommon in the winter. 

 These birds have also been met with in Cornwall, near Fal- 

 mouth, but not commonly; in Devonshire, near Plymouth, in 

 several places; in Hampshire, and Surrey, near Godalming. 

 In Durham a pair, male and female, were procured near 

 Hartlepool, and one near Sunderland, in January, 1814; in 



