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CURLEW. 



the bird's note. Met with in great nunnbers about Zwari-kops- 

 rivier : the fanne called by the Hottentots, Takaikene. It lives on 

 bulbs and roots, which it digs up with the bill. Is fhy, and roofts 

 on trees of nights. It is faid to be a fign of rain, if this bird flies 

 in great flocks againft the wind. 



Efliimaux Curlew, ArSl. Zool. ii. N" 364. 



T EN GTH feventeen inches. Bill nearly four ; colour black; c. 



the upper mandible hangs over the lower : the head, neck, Descriptjon. 

 and breafl:, whitifh : the chin, and before the eye, plain ; the reft 

 daflied with brown ftreaks, moft fo on the breafl: : top of the head 

 deep chocolate brown, divided down the nniddle by a white line, 

 and the fides of it above the eyes iiounded with white: between 

 the bill and eye brown : region of the ears brownifh : the upper 

 part of the body and wings brown, nnottled with white ; but the 

 back and fcapulars are alfo marked with fpots of white ; thofe on 

 the rump are more numerous, and incline to ferruginous : belly, 

 thighs, and vent, white : fides croffed with narrow bars of brown : 

 quills brown, the inner margins fpotted with duflcy white, fhafts 

 white : the wings and tail even ; the laft brown, croflTed with fe- 

 ven or eight blackifh bars, a quarter of an inch broad : legs 

 blueifii black : toes divided to their origin. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, from whence I was favoured with a fpe- Place. 



cimen procured by Mr. Hutchins. 



This rs the EJkimaux Curlew of the jirHic Zoology; but not that 

 of the Philofophical TranJaSlions *, defcribed by Dr. Forjier. This 

 I am well afliJred of, having both of them in my colleftion ; as alfo 

 the variety ofourCommon Curletv, as defcribed before in its place t» 



* Vol, Ixii. p. 41 1. See Gen, Syn. v. p. izj. f Gen, Syn, v. p. 120. 



I i 2 Genus 



