346 CURLEW. Clafslf. 



Genus II. CURLEWS. 



I. The C U R L E W. 'tab: 8. 



Le Corlieu. Belon av. 204. Goifier, Brach-fcknepf. Kram, 

 Arquata, five numenius. Gefner 350. 



a<u. 221. Scolopax arquata. Lin.fyjl. 24.2. 



Arcafe Torquato. Aldr. a-v. iii. Faun. Suec./p. 168. 



169. Daws Heel fpove. Regn.Spaaer. 

 Wil. orn. 294. Regn. Spove. Brunnicb 158. 



Raiijyn. aw. 103. Br. Zoo/. 118. 

 LeCourly. Bri/Joti a<v. v. 311. 



'"T^PIESE birds frequent our fea-coafts and 

 -*■ marfhes, in the winter time, in large flocks, 

 walking on the open fands ; feeding on fhells, frogs, 

 crabs, and other marine infects: in fummer they re- 

 tire 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 di- 

 ftin&fpots of pale brown. Their flefh is very rank 

 and fifhy, notwithftanding an old Englijh proverb in 

 its favour. 

 Defer. Curlews differ much in weight and fize ; fome 

 weighing thirty-feven ounces, others not twenty-two: 

 the length of the largeft to the tip of the tail twenty- 

 three inches •, the breadth three feet three inches ; the 

 bill is fix 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 oblong black lines : the back is white, 

 fpotted with a few black ftrokes : the quil-feathers 



are 



