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the tail confifts of twelve feathers, and is feven inches long : the 

 wings reach almoft to the end of it: legs pale red. 



The female fcarcely differs, except in having the top of the . Female. 

 head more flat. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of Africa. Place. 



Found near watery places. Not difficult to be tamed, as one was 

 kept for a time in the Company's garden at the Cape. 



Le Courly brun de l'lile de Lucon, Son. Voy. p. 85. pi. 47. — Buf. Oif. 17. 



viii. p. 31. MANILLA I. 



CIZE of our Curlew. Bill greenifh : eye encircled with a naked Description.. 



greenifh fkin : irides bright red : general colour of the plu- 

 mage rufous brown : legs the colour of red lake. 



Inhabits the ifland of Lufonia. . Place- 



Tantalus minutus, Lin Syft. i.p. 241. 3, 18. 



LeiTer Ibis, Ed-w. pi. 356. LESSER I. 



CIZE of the Whimbrel, or lefs. Bill two inches and a half long, Description. 



blue at the bafe, black at the point : fides, between the bill 

 and eyes, and round them, bare : plumage on the upper parts of 

 the body and tail dufky brown : the feathers of the breaft loofe, 

 and longer than the reft: rump and under parts white: legs 

 dark lead-colour : claws black. 



Inhabits Surinam, Place, 



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