Class IL 



CURLEW. 



4*9 



BILL long, ilender, incurvated. 



NOSTRILS linear, placed near the bafe. 



TONGUE fliort, fharp pointed. 



TOES connected as far as the firft joint by a 



ibong membrane. 



XXIX. 

 CURLEW, 



Le Corlieu. Be/on g~j. 204. 

 Arquata, five numenius. Gef- 



ner a<v. %z\. 

 Arcafe Torquato. Aldr. a~j. 



III. 169. 

 Wil. orn. 294. 

 Rail fyn. av. 103. 

 Le Courly. Brijfon av. V. 



3«- 



Goifler,Brach-fcknepf. Kram, 



350. Frifchy II. 229. 

 Scolopax arquata. Lin. Jyft, 



242. 

 Faun. Suec. /p. 168. 

 Danis Heel-fpove. Regn. Spa- 



aer. Regn. Spove. Brunnich, 



158. 

 Br. Zool. 118. 



176. Cur. 

 lew. 



THESE birds frequent our fea coafts and 

 marines in the winter time in large flocks, 

 walking on the open fands ; feeding on friells, 

 frogs, crabs, and other marine infects : in fummer 

 they retire to the mountanous and unfrequented 

 parts of the country, where they pair and breed. 

 Their eggs are of a pale olive color, marked with 

 irregular but diflindt fpots of pale brown. Their 

 flefri is very rank and fifhy, notwithstanding an 

 old EngliJIj proverb in its favour. 



Curlews differ much in weight and fize; fome Descrip. 

 weighing thirty-feven ounces, others not twenty- 

 two : the length of the largeft to the tip of the 



tail 



