182 CURLEW. 



black, moderately bent downwards ; head, back, and wing coverts 

 mixed with brown, ferruginous, and white; primaries dusky, edged 

 with white; breast, belly, and rump white ; tail dusky, even at the 

 end, the exterior feather edged with white; legs black. 



This bird has been shot in Holland; also at Sandwich, in Kent; 

 and the late Dr. Leith met with it at Greenwich, in August. 



A. — Length seven inches. Bill one inch and a half long, bent 

 downwards, and black; head, neck, and upper parts of the body 

 brown; the feathers of the back margined with white; the two first 

 much paler, and plain ; over the eye a pale trace ; all the under parts 

 of the body dusky white; on the outer edge of the coverts two or 

 three white feathers ; wings and tail even ; legs black. 



Inhabits India, called Sourly or Sourbey. — Sir John Anstruther. 

 Colonel Montagu, in his Supplement, thinks it rather to belong to 

 the Sandpipers; and to say the truth, it appears to hang between 

 that and the Curlew, but in the length of bill, as well as the form 

 of it, seems rather to incline to the latter. 



13.- CHILI CURLEW. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and a half, from the middle 

 bent downwards ; half way from the base brown ; the rest dusky 

 yellow ; head, neck, breast, and all the upper parts, wings, and tail, 

 brown, much paler on the forehead ; on the wings a freckling of 

 white, with some whitish spots on the coverts, and a tinge of yellow 

 down the middle of the back ; breast, and all beneath, thighs, and 

 vent, pure white ; the wings reach to within three quarters of an 

 inch of the tail ; legs pale dusky, and bare three quarters of an inch 

 above the joint ; toes long ; claws black. 



