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Genus LXVIL CURLEW; 



N" II. Hudfonian G. 



ti- Common Curlew, Gen. Sym v. p. 119. N" i. 



+- COMMON Scolopax arquata, Sefp Fog. pi. in p. 109. 



^T*HIS bird appears both in Chinefe drawings, and thofe from 

 India; we may therefore conclude it to inhabit boththofe: 

 places^ 



5,. White-headed Curlew, Gen. Syn. v. p. 123, N° 5 ? 



^^^!^^'-^^-^^- New Species of Tantalus, Sparrm. Voy. i. p. z8l. 



Description. I~5^" Sparrtnan defcribes a bird very fimilarj if not the fame 

 with this fpecies. The bill is five inches long, black at the 

 tip and lower neb ; the upper rieb red : the neck afh-colour; back, 

 the fame, with a caft of green and a little yellow : the wings dark 

 beneath, and above of a blue colour, inclining to black : the leffer 

 wing coverts violet : the tail wedge-fhaped, twice the length of 

 the bill, and the body fomewhat larger than that of a Hen : thighs - 

 afh-colour : feet, legs, and membrane between, blackifh. In 

 other refpefls it had all the charafleriftic marks of the Tantalus *. - 

 Place. This inhabits the neighbourhood of the CiJ^^ i?/Go(?^//oj?^, and 



is called by the colonifts Hagedajh and Hadelde, fuppofed from 



* Does he mean that the face was naked ? If fo, it fliould certainly be rank-. 

 «d with the Tantalus, or Uis ; but it is not mentioned in his defcription. 



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