43$ W H I M B R E L Class II. 



tail twenty-five inches •, the breadth three feet five 

 inches ; the bill is feven inches long : the head, 

 neck, and coverts of the wings are of a pale 

 brown ^ the middle of each feather black ; the 

 bread and belly white, marked with narrow ob- 

 long black lines : the back is white, fpotted with 

 a few black ftrokes : the quil-feathers are black, 

 but the inner webs fpotted with white : the tail 

 white, tinged with red and beautifully barred with 

 black •, the legs are long, flrong, and of a bluifh 

 grey color : the bottoms of the toes flat and broad, 

 to enable it to walk on the foft mud, in fearch of 

 food. 



|y7« Whim- Phseopus altera, vel arquata 

 jrel. minor. Gefner a-v. 499. 



Taran^olo, Girardello. Atdr, 



a<v. III. 180. 

 JJ'iL cm. 294. 

 Rail fyn. av. 103. 

 Ednv. a'v. 307. 

 Scolopax Phsopus. Lin.fyft. 



245. Scope!:, No. 132. 

 Windfpole, Spof. Faun. Suec. 

 /p. 169. 



Kleiner GoifTer. Kram. 350. 

 Kleine Art Brachvogel or Re- 



genvogel. Frifch, II. 225. 

 Le petit Courly, ou le Cour- 



lieu. Numenius minor. 



BriJJbn a-v. V. 3 1 7. tab. 



27. 

 Dams Mellum-Spove. JNor- 



*veg. Smaae Spue. Br. 159. 

 Br, Zool. 119. 



THE whimbrel is much leis frequent on our 

 fhores than the curlew -, but its haunts, 

 food, and general appearance are much the fame. 

 It is obferved to vifit the neighbourhood of 

 Spalding (where it is called the Curlew knot) in vaft 



Hocks 



