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Genus LXVII. CURLEW. 



N° 1. Common C. N° 6. Whimbrel. 



2. Madagafcar C. 7. Brafilian Wh. 



3. Luzonian C. 8. Efquimaux C. 



4. Otaheite C. 9. Cape C. 



5. White-headed C. 10. Pygmy C. 



ILL long, incurvated. 

 Face covered with feathers. 

 Noftrils linear, longitudinal near the bafe. 

 Tongue fhort, fharp-pointed. 

 Toes connected as far as the firfb joint by a membrane. 



Scolopax arquata, Lin. Syji. i. p. 242. 3. — Faun. Suec. 168. — Brim. N° 158. j„ 



Muller, p. 2i.—Kram. El. p. 350. l.—Frifch. t. 229. +■ COMMON C, 



Le Courly, Brif. On. v. p. 311. i.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 19. — PL En!. 818. 



The Curlew, Rati Syn. p. 103. A. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 294. pi. 54.! — Albin, i» 

 pi. 79. — Br. Zoo!. N° 176. pi. 63. — Ara. Zoo!, p. 462. A. 

 Br. Mu/. Lev- Muf. 



'THE common length of this bird is two {eet } but it is apt to Description 



vary much in fize. Bill feven inches, brown, near the end 

 black ; bafe of the under mandible flefh-colour : the feathers of 

 the head, neck, and wing coverts, pale brown, dalhed down the 

 middle with black : round the eye, on the fore part, white : back 

 white, ftreaked with black : breaft and belly white, marked 

 with narrow longifh lines of black : quills black, fpotted on the 



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