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Those smaller running and wading Birds, the Coursers and 

 Curlews, naturally suggest other forms which resemble them, 

 more or less, in external appearance or ia habits ; we refer 

 to such smaller forms, still common in England, as the Plovers, 

 Turnstones, Sandpipers, EufEs, Snipes, and Woodcocks. The 

 last of these, the Woodcock (Seolopaco rusticola, fig. -54), with 

 its enormously long straight bill, which is a delicate iustrument 



Fig. 53. 



The Saored Ibia {Ibis CBthiopica). 



of touch, belongs to a small group of four species, and is found 

 in Europe, North Africa, and Central and Northern Asia, occa- 

 sionally extending to America. Another species is truly 

 American, while one inhabits New Guinea and another Java. 



The common English Snipe (GcclUnayo media) may stand for 

 a rather numerous group of Birds which closely resemble it, and 

 are spread over the whole world. 



