THE STONE CURLEW; S3l 



Description. 



brane at the root. The tongue is very short, 

 considering the length of the bill, and bears 

 some resemblance to an arrow. 



The female is somewhat larger than the male, 

 which is commonly called the jack curlew, and 

 the spots with which her body is covered almost 

 all over> is more inclining to a red; 



THE STONE CURLEW 



DIFFERS very much from the former. It 

 is a pretty large bird, being from the extension 

 of the point of each wing a full yard, and has a 

 straight sharp- pointed bill, near two inches long, 

 black towards the nostrils, the other parts yel- 

 low; the eyes and the edges of their lids are yel- 

 low, there is a bare place under each eye, that 

 appears of a sort of yellowish green, the breast, 

 thighs, and under the chin, are of a yellowish 

 white, the back, head, and neck, are in the mid- 

 dle parts black, with their borders of a sort of 

 reddish ash-colour, with some transverse spots of 

 white upon the quill- feathers, and the outward 

 surface black, some of the other wing-feather? 

 are tipt with white, so that they appear of a fine 

 mixture of black and white, prettily mottled. 

 The tail is about six inches long, the colours va- 

 riegated like those of the body and wings. The 

 legs are long, and of a yellowish colour, with 



