Crass ll. WHIMBREL CURLEW. 
bill is two inches three quarters long, dusky 
above, red below; the feathers on the head and 
neck are brown tinged with red, marked in the 
middle with an oblong black spot; the cheeks 
are of a paler color; the upper part of the back, 
the coverts of the wings, the scapulars, and the 
farthest quil feathers, are of the same color 
with the neck, but the black spots spread out 
transversely on each web; the quil feathers are 
dusky, their shafts white, and their exterior 
webs marked with large semicircular white 
spots. The breast, belly, and lower part of 
the back, are white ; the coverts of the tail, and 
the tail itself, are of a very pale whitish brown, 
crossed with black bars. ‘The legs and feet are 
of a dull green, and formed like those of the 
curlew. 
I received a specimen from Invercauld, shot 
on the Grampian Hills, whose length was six- 
teen inches; that of the bill two; the head round, 
black on the top, divided lengthways by a white 
line ; the chin white; the cheeks, neck, breast, 
weighs fourteen ounces, that its length is seventeen, and its 
breadth twenty-nine inches; and that it is seen on the Kentish 
coast from the 15th of April to the first week in May. It is also 
frequently observed in Gloucestershire, on the lower parts of the 
Severn, about the same period. Is common on the continent ; 
and in Spain is brought to market in autumn with the curlew, 
and sometimes in greater abundance. Ep. 
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