i&S CURLEW. 



flender lines : the feathered part of the thighs yellowifh white, 

 fpotted with brown : fides under the wings rufous, tranfverfely 

 fafciated with brown : back deep brown, the feathers margined 

 with greyifh white : wings brown : fhafts of the prime quills 

 white : fecondaries and leffer coverts margined with grey : lower 

 coverts ferruginous, tranfverfely fafciated with brown : rump 

 brown, the feathers edged and fpotted with whitifh : tail fhort, 

 brown, crofied with whitifh bands : legs blueifh black. 

 Place and Inhabits the fens of Hudfon's Bay. Appears near Albany the be- 



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ginning or May ; going further north, and returning to Albany 

 in Augufi : it flays there till September, when it departs for the 

 South. It lays four eggs, and appears in flocks, young and old 

 together, till their departure. Found in flocks in Nova Scotia in 

 Otlober and November. Feeds on the Black-berried Heath, and 

 may be heard at a fmall diftance, by a kind of whiftling note. 



Met with alfo in Newfoundland : called there Curlew. The na- 

 tives of Hud/on' s Bay call it Wee-kee-me-naJe-Ju. It is eflemed for 

 its delicacy of flavour. In the Britijh Mufeum is one of thefe, 

 which came from Rio Janeiro in South America. 



This is certainly a diftindt fpecies. 



q. Lev. Muf. 



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Description. T ESS than the common Snipe. Bill long and bent, but lefs 

 fo than in the Curlew ; colour blackifh brown : the crown of 

 the head, hind part of the neck, and upper parts of the body, 

 are cinereous : the face, as far as the eyes, the chin, fore part of 

 the neck, rump, and belly, white : breaft cinereous, fpotted with 

 ferruginous : quills brown, with white fhafts : from the firft to 

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