CURLEW. 



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narrow bars of brown ; quills brown, spotted with dusky white on 

 the inner margins, shafts white ; wings and tail even ; the last brown, 

 crossed with seven or eight blackish bars, a quarter of an inch broad; 

 legs bluish black ; toes divided to their origin. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay, from whence I received a specimen ; it 

 is the Eskimaux Curlew of the Arct. Zoology, but not that of the 

 Philosophical Transactions, described by Dr. Forster ; which is the 

 next species but one. This I am well assured of, having had both 

 of them in my own collection. 



9 —BRAZILIAN WHIMBREL. 



Numenius Guarauna, Ind. Orn. ii. 712. Nat. Misc. pi. 705. 



Scolopax Guarauna, Lin. i. 242. Gm. Lin. i. 654. Raii, 104. 7. Will. 215. t. 53. 



Id. Engl. 292. pi. 53. Buf. viii. 44. 

 Numenius major fuscus, Gerin. iv. t 439. 

 Numenius Americanus fuscus, Bris. v. 330. Id. 8vo. ii. 294. 

 Curucau a Cou varie, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 364. 

 Brasilian Whimbrel, Gen. Syn. v. 125. 



SIZE of the Whimbrel ; length twenty-one inches. Bill four, 

 brown, with a yellow base; the head and neck brown ; margins of 

 the feathers whitish ; back and under parts from the breast chestnut 

 brown ; scapulars, rump, upper and under tail coverts, and tail, 

 bright brown, glossed with green ; wing coverts the same ; but the 

 greater ones, farthest from the body, are brown within ; quills brown ; 

 the outer edges glossy green brown ; legs grey brown; claws blackish. 



Inhabits Brazil, Guiana, and other parts of South America. In 

 Paraguay the Guaranis call it Caruay ; found there, and at Buenos 

 Ayres, in flocks of from twenty to sixty. Said to have been shot in 

 Anglesea, in September.* 



* Shaw's Misc.— The late Rev. Hugh Davies, of Aber, once hinted to me, whether the 

 Suffolk proverb, mentioned by Mr. Willughby, of 



" A Curlew be she white, be she black" 



" She carries 12 pence at her back" 

 could possibly have any reference to this bird, having been occasionally met with in England 

 in his time. A A 2 



