PLATE LXXIL 



Whimbrel. Rail Syn, p. 103. A. 2. 



Will. Orn. p. 294. 



Edw. pi. 307. 



Penn. Br. Zool. 2. N° 177. p. 430. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 123. 6. 

 Corlieu, ou petit Courly. Brif. Orn. 5. p. 317. 2. />/. 27. fig. 1 



Buff. Oif. 8. p, 27.— P/. <&/. 842. 

 Tarango la Girardello. yf/^r. av. 3. 180. 

 Windfpole, Spof. Faun. Suec. p. 169. 

 Kleiner GoifTer. Kram. 350. 

 Kleine Art Brachvogel or Regenvogel. Frifch. 2. 225. 



The length of this Bird is feventeen inches ; breadth twenty- 

 nine ; weight fourteen ounces and a half. It is much lefs frequent 

 in this country than the Curlew, to which it bears a great refem- 

 blance in appearance, though not in fize ; the latter being ufually 

 from twenty to twenty-five inches in length. In its manners it is 

 alfo much like the Curlew. 



It is met with in flocks from April to May on its pafTage to the 

 North, where it is fuppofed they breed. Mr. Pennant fays he re- 

 ceived one from Invercauld, fhot on the Grampian Hills. This fpe- 

 cies feems to vary in a great degree : the Bird defcribed by Mr. 

 Latham does not accord in feveral refpecls with that given by Mr, 

 Pennant, A fpecimen of this has been received from Sweden : Mr, 

 Latham fays it is alfo found in America. 



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