CURLEW. 183 



Inhabits Chili, where it is called Jack Snipe ; and the habits 

 such as are usual with birds of the same Genus. One of these was 

 killed on the Plains of Maypii, in August, by General Wavell, 

 who presented me with a drawing of the bird. 



14— COLLARED CURLEW. 



Ardea Bononiensis, bid. Orn ii. 678. Gm. Lin. i. 639. 



Ardea nigra torquata, Bris. v. 440. Id. 8vo. ii. 325. 



Ardeae congener, Rail, 102. Will. 207. t. 50. 



Bird a kin to the Heron of Aldrovand, Will. Engl. 282. pi. 50. f. 3. 



Collared Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 52. 



SIZE of a Curlew. Bill short, yellow, marked at the end, and 

 the middle with a black spot; plumage black, except a ring of 

 white round the neck ; the second quills, nearest the body, almost as 

 long as the greater : the tail consists of twelve dusky feathers ; legs 

 black ; between the toes a membrane as far as the first joint. 



Inhabits Italy, found about Bologna ; and seems rather a doubtful 

 species. In Willughby's plate of this bird, copied from Aldrovandus, 

 the bill is curved downwards, more so than in any of the Heron 

 Genus, although attached to it by the former describers; from that 

 circumstance, therefore, we rather suspect it to belong to that of 

 the Curlew. 



15.— DERHOMAI CURLEW. 



LENGTH, from the bill to the point of the tail, two feet ; extent 

 of wing two feet ten inches ; from the point of the bill to the eyes 

 five inches ; length of the thigh three inches and four-tenths ; leg 

 three inches and one-tenth ; middle toe two inches and seven-tenths ; 

 outer two inches and two-tenths ; inner two inches ; hind one an inch 

 and three-tenths ; circumference of the base of the bill two inches 



