i2o CURLEW. 



inner webs with white: tail reddifh white, barred with black: 



legs dufky blue. 



Male and female much alike. 



Place and This fpecies is pretty common in England, where it is to be 



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met with at all iealons: in the winter haunting the fea coafts and 



fens; repairing in fummer to the mountains and more inland 



parts, to breed. The female in April lays four eggs, of a pale 



olive-colour, marked with brownilh fpots. The food, while in the 



neighbourhood of the fea, con fills of worm?, marine, cruftaceous, 



and other infects; at other times it feeds on flugs and worms, which 



it draws' out of the earth morning and evening with its long bill. 



It is often met with in large flocks, and flies rather fwiftly. It 



is by many accounted good food, but is apt to have a rank 



tafle*. It is alfo found in moil parts of Europe; but in general 



retiring north to breed, and returning to the fouth as autumn 



approaches. Met with in Italy and Greece, and perhaps much 



farther to the fouth, as flocks are feen palling over the ifiand of 



Malta fpring and autumn f. To the north it is found in plenty, 



in all the plains and open marfhes, or heath grounds, of Ruffia 



and Sibiria ; alfo in Kamtfchatka, and in Europe as high as Lap' 



mark and Iceland^. 



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¥ ^PHE Curlew is alfo found in America, but differs in fome 



particulars ; weighing from fourteen to eighteen ounces, and 

 twenty inches in length. The bill is a trifle longer in propor- 

 tion : the ground colour of the plumage pale rufous brown : 



• I believe only when on the fea coafts ; feveral which I have tailed, killed 

 inland, were very good. 



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