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CURLEW. 



Place. 



thighs, and vent, white : breaft and fides yellowifh, dafhed with 

 brown ; the laft barred tranfverfely with the fame : the three 

 firft quills are plain black; the fourth fpotted on the inner webj 

 and the others on both webs ; the fecondaries much the fame, 

 but the ground colour grey : tail grey, barred with brown : legs 

 red brown. 



This inhabits Madagafcar, and feems very fimilar to our 

 fpecies. 



LUZONIAN C. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Courlis tachete de Plfle de Lucon, Sonn. Voy. p. 85. pi. 48. — Buf. Oi/l 

 viii. p. 32. 



HP HIS is much lefs than the common Curlew. The top of the 

 head black ; the reft of the head, neck, and breaft, white, 

 marked with narrow longitudinal ftreaks of black : the belly, 

 with tranfverfe femicircular bands of the fame : wing coverts 

 and back the colour of amber; on the margin of every feather 

 from two to fix white fpots : greater quills black : tail vinaceous 

 grey, crofTed with black lines. 

 Inhabits the ifiand of Lufonia. 



OTAHEITE C. 

 Description. 



T^EARLY the fize of the common Curlew : length twenty 

 inches. Bill four inches long, moderately bent, and brown? 

 bafe reddifti : the head and neck pale reddifh white, marked with; 

 numerous dufky lines, perpendicularly placed : crown of the head 

 brown : over the eye a pale ftreak : back dufky black, the feathers- 

 margined with pale reddifh white, appearing waved : the under 

 parts, from the breaft, of this laft colour, with a few mottled 



marks. 



