WHIMBREL. 585 



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

 quickly repeated. 



To the northward of our own country the Whimbrel 

 visits Denmark and Sweden. Mr. Hewitson saw it occasion- 

 ally in the western parts of Norway. Richard Dann, Esq. 

 tells me that a few breed annually in Lapland, as high 

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

 summer visiters to the Faroe Islands, and to Iceland. 



The Whimbrel is found 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 Ger- 

 many. It was found by M. Menetries, the Russian Na- 

 turalist, on the borders of rivers in the Province of Cau- 

 casus. 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 

 darker brown ; chin white ; chest pale brown, each feather 

 with a dark brown central streak ; breast and belly nearly 

 white ; flanks dull white, barred transversely with brown ; 



