CURLEW. 



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marks over the thighs : the wing coverts reddifh white and dufky 

 mixed: quills dufky, with pale edges : tail of a dirty yellow j 

 the bafe half marked with irregular dufky fpots j the end half 

 barred acrofs with the fame : legs blue grey : claws black. 



This inhabits Otabeite, where it is known by the name of 

 Tevrea. In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banh. 



Place. 



QIZE and fhape of the common Curlew. Bill pretty long, and 

 red : the head and part of the neck white : the reft of the 

 plumage of a very deep blue, except the quills, which are black : 

 legs cinereous grey. 



This was met with at the Cape of Good Hope. From the 

 drawings of Sir Jofeph Banks, 



WHITE- HEAD. 

 EDC. 



PL. LXXX. 



Description. 



Place. 



Scolopax Phjeopus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 243. 4. — Faun. Suec. p. 169. — Scop. 



jinn. i. N° 1 32.— Brun. N° 159. — Muller, p. zz.—Kram. El. p. 350. 



— Gecrgi Rei/e, 171. 

 Corlieu, ou petit Courly, Brif. Orn. v. p. 317* 2. pi. 27. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. 



viiL p. 27. — PI. En/. 842. 

 Whimbrel, Rait Syn. p. 103. A. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 294.- 



Br. Zool. ii. N° 177. pi. 64. — ArB. Zool. p. 462. B. 

 Lev. Muf. 



-Ed=w. pi. 307.—= 



ENGTH feventeen inches; breadth twenty-nine: weight 

 fourteen ounces and a half. The bill three inches long, 

 black; the bafe of the under mandible pale red : the head, neck, 

 and breaft, pale brown, ftreaked with dufky brown : chin white : 

 the fides of the head are alfo fomewhat paler than the reft ; and 

 between the bill and eye is a dufky ftreak : all the upper parts of 

 the body and wing coverts are pale brown, ftreaked with dufky., 



R 2 each 



6. 



WHIMBREL. 



Description* 



