CURLEW. i2i 



the crown of the head dufky black : the chin very pale : neck 

 dafhed with ftreaks of black : back and fcapulars black ; the 

 feathers of the firft margined, and of the laft fpotted on the 

 edges with the ground colour: the wing coverts dafhed down 

 the fhafts with black, ending in a point : the three firft prime 

 - quills black; the fourth barred within; the reft, on both fides the 

 Shafts, with black; as are the rump, tail coverts, and tail : the 

 tinder parts, from the breaft, very pale reddifh brown, or cream- 

 colour : legs black. 



I received a fpecimen of this from New York. Sir AJloion Place ani> 

 Lever is likewife in pofieffion of a fecond from Huclfon's Bay, 

 where it is feen on the coafts and marfhes, the end of May : when 

 the rivers are open, returns to the plains. It fcrapes a few fcat- 

 tered leaves together by way of neft, on which it lays as far as 

 three eggs, of a light blue fpotted with black: the young hatched 

 in July. They retire again to the marfhes the middle oiAugiift; 

 and leave the coaft on the appearance of winter. Our laft 

 voyagers met with the Curlew at Hervey's IJland in the South 

 Seas •'. 



2. 



Scolopax Madagafcarienfis, Lin. Syji. p. 242, 2. 

 Le Courly de Madagafcar, Brif. Orn. v. p. 321. 3. pi. 28.— PI. Enl. 198. MADAGASCAR 



C. 

 CIZE of our Curlew. The bill much the fame, but very little Description. 



bent, except towards the tip : on the head, neck, and upper 

 parts, the feathers are chiefly brown, with grey margins : the 

 upper tail coverts rufous grey, marked with fome tranfverfe 

 bands of grey, and others parallel to the margin : chin, belly, 



* CoolCs laft Foy. i. p. 220. 



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