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Curlew. 



£. IV. 



* The Brafilian Guarauna of Marggrave. Rufticula aquatica Brafilienfis. 



T is of the bignefs of the Jacu , hath a ftreight Bill, a little inclining downward, 

 L yellow, but dusky at the tip, four inches and an half long. Its body is alio of the 

 fame length. The upper Legs are feathered down half way, fix inches long. Each 

 Foot hath four Toes fb difpofed as is ufual, the middle of which is three inches long, 

 the reft (horter. The whole bird is covered with brown feathers, mingled with much 

 fhade. The Head and all the Neck are indeed of the fame colour Jbut befides, ipeck- 

 led with white, as in the Jacu. It is pretty good meat. 



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Chap. II. ■ $. I. 



The Godwit, called in fome places the XarTfihelp, or Yarwip, in others, the Stone* 

 Plover : TheBzrgeor i£gocephalus of 31etlonius,asItakeit. AnFedoa 

 llZt Gefneri > An * Rufticula Aldr ov ? 



IT is like and equal to a Woodcock, or a little bigger : From point of Bill to the 

 Claws feventeen inches and an half long: Between the tips of the Wings 

 fpread twenty eight and an half broad. The feathers of the Head are grey or 

 cinereous, with fome tindure of red, their middle parts being black} above the 

 Eyes white. The Neck and Throat are reddifh. The Breaft of a fordid white. The 

 Back is particoloured of red, black, and whiter the middle parts of the feathers be- 

 ing black, the edges of a pale red. In the Cock the Throat and Breaft are crofled 

 with black lines : In the Hen the Throat and Neck are grey [ or alb coloured, ] The 

 whole rump almoft is white, powdered with blackiih fpecks. [ In the Bird that I de- 

 fcribed a triangular fpot of white, took up the Rump or lower part of the Back, the 

 vertex refpe&ing the birds Head. ~] The great feathers of the Wings are black, with 

 white (hafts : The reft of the firft row, as alfb thofe of the fecond row have reddifh 

 aih-coloured tips and edges. The letter covert-feathers of the Wings are of like 

 colour with the body. The Tail-feathers are in number twelve, all crofled alternate- 

 ly with black and white lines 5 the middlemoft, which are the longeft, of 3 ' f inches 

 length : The reft on each fide in order fomewhat (horter, the exteriour than the 

 interiour. 



The Bill is white at the Bate, black toward the point, longer for the bignefs of the 

 bird even than the Snipes or Woodcocks 5 the upper Mandible a little longer than the 

 lower : The Tongue iharp : The-Nofthrils oblong : The Ears great. 



The Legs are not very long 5 naked to the middle of the fecond joynt : The Claws 

 black. The Claw of the middle fore-toe on the infide is thinned into an edge. The 

 outer Toe is joyned to the middle one from the rife to the firft joynt by a pretty thick 

 membrane of a dusky or dark green colour. 



It lives and feeks it food on the fandy fhoresby the Sea-fide, which for a great (pace 

 are uncovered when the Tide is out, where it hides not it fell like the Woodcock, but 

 walks up and down the Sands in open view, like a Gull. 



* a final! Barge of Bellonhts, -which he faith they in French calf, * Petit Corlieu. 



It lives in Meadows like the Curlew, and in like manner frequents the Sea. It is a 

 timorous bird, not abiding the approach of a man. It hath a cry like a Goats whence 

 we guefs it was named by Ariftotle, Mgocephalus, or Goathead. But left perchance 

 this my conjecture may feem rafh and groundlefs, I will defcribe it. It is lefTer than the 

 Curlew, but for colour not much unlike it, hathalfoa fhorterBill, and ftreight. Ari- 

 fiotle writes thus of it. It altogether wants a Spleen, and a little after, For in fome 

 birds the Gall fticks to the Stomach,in fometothe Guts, as in the Dove, Raven, ghtail, 

 Swallow, Sparrowj in fome to the Liver and the Stomach, as in the iEgocephalu9, and 

 laftly, in others to the Liver and the gut, as in the Hawk * n d Kite. But in our Barge 

 difle&ed we found the Gall (ticking both to the Liver and Stomach, as any one that 



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