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The Sanderlingj called alfo Curwillet ahmt Penfance in 



Cornwal. 



Numb. LXXIV. 



TT weighs two Ounces. Its Length from the point of the Bill to the 

 i end of the Claws is eight Inches and a half, to the end of the Tail 

 but eight Inches ; its Breadth when the Wings are extended iixteen Inches y 

 it is rather long than round-bodied. 



The Bill is ftreight, black, flender, an Inch long; the upper Man- 

 dible a little longer than the nether ; the Tongue extended to the end of 

 the Bill ,• the Noftrils oblong ; the Ears great j the Legs, Feet and Claws 

 black ; and which is efpecially remarkable, it wants the back Toe ; the 

 . fore Toe disjoined from the very rife. 



The Head is fmall, party-coloured, of cinereous brown and black ; the 

 Neck, middle of the Back, the Shoulders and fcapular Feathers are of a 

 lovely brown Colour; in fome various, of black and white, and in others oi 

 black and a{h-colour ; the Tail is of the fame Colour, with white Edges. 



Each Wing hath twenty two Quill-Feathers ; the four outmoft (except- 

 ing the Shafts which are white) all of a dark Colour, almofl black ; the 

 reft have their upper Halves, as far as they appear ; above the fecond 

 Row, brown or dusky Colour, the lower white ; howbeit thefe Colours do 

 not divide all the Feathers equally, but from the fifth the white is gra- 

 dually increafed, fo that in the twentieth it takes up almoft the whole 

 Feather. The next following after the tenth have alfo their Tips white ; 

 the firft row of covert Feathers (next the Quills) have white Tipsj which 

 when the Wing is fprcad, make a long tranfverfe white Line, broader and 

 feroader, by Degrees from the beginning ; the Feathers near the Ridge of 

 the Wing, and on the outmoft Joynt, are all dusky; in the Cocks almoft 

 black, of the fame Colour with the middle of the Back ; the Wings when 

 clofed reach as far, or further than the Tail itfelf, which is (Lort of about 

 two Inches long, confifting of tv^elve Feathers. 



The whole Belly, and under fide of the Wings, as white as Snow ; in- 

 fome the Breaft is fpotted, or clouded with brown, in others no Spots; the 

 blind Guts are an Inch and half long ,• the Stomach not very mufculous. 

 Thefe Birds live on the fandy Shores of the Sea; there is a great many of 

 them on the Sea Coafts of Cornwall. The 



