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2 
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COMMON 
Cc. 
VaR. 
DeEscrIprioNe 
Zeunt 
CRYING 
Cc 
DeEscrRIPTION. 
Cin OR, SEE AW. 
Genus LXXI. CURLE W. 
N° 1. Common C. N° 2. Crying C. 
- Numenius arquata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 710.1. Var. es 
Common Curlew, Gen. Syn. vy. p. 119. 1.—Jd. Sup. p. 243. Var. 
Bird of this kind has been brought from New Hollend; it feerns. 
to differ chiefly in having the bill confiderably larger in propor- 
tion, and the ground colour of the plumage dull ferruginous, inftead 
of brown: bill black: irides yellow: legs dull blue. 
Ephoufkyca, Crying Bird, Bartr. Trav. p. 145. 291. 
SIZE of a large domettic Hen: bill five or fix inches long, and 
arched downwards; fquare at the bottom; colour dufky green: 
the eye large, placed high in the head, and very prominent: the neck 
is long and flender: all the body above and beneath of a dark lead 
colour, every feather edged or tipped with white, which makes the 
bird appear fpeckled: tail very fhort, the middle feather the longeft, 
the others on each fide fhorten gradually, of the colour of the reft 
of the bird, only fomewhat darker; the two outermoft perfectly 
white, which the bird has a faculty of flirting out on either fide, as 
quick as a flafh of lightning, on being difturbed: the legs are long, 
and bare of feathers above the knee, and of a black or dark lead 
colour. 
This 
