their peculiar cry of seven distinct notes. I have seen 

 little of the Whimbrel in this country, except on the 

 autumnal passage to v^hich I have referred, but am vi^ell 

 acquainted with it from personal observation in both 

 Northern and Southern Spain and various parts of the 

 Mediterranean shores. In its habits and manner of 

 feeding, as well as in appearance, this bird closely 

 resembles the Curlew, but it is less wary than that 

 exceedingly wide-awake "fowl, and its flesh is much 

 superior to that of its more common relation. On the 

 lower Guadalquivir in May we found a good number of 

 Whimbrels feeding upon the mud-banks of the river at 

 low-water time, and resorting as the tide " made " to 

 some open swampy savannahs in the pine- woods on the 

 right side in the far-famed Goto de Dofiana. Here it 

 was not difficult to drive the birds over our ambush, 

 and we obtained as many as we required for the table 

 and for specimens. In my opinion the Whimbrel is 

 the best of all the marsh-birds for culinary purposes in 

 the spring-time, although not to compare in autumn 

 with the RufiF, the Godwits, Snipes, and Knot. This 

 bird breeds regularly in Iceland, the Faeroes, the 

 Orkneys, the Shetlands, and throughout the north of 

 Europe and Asia. Its migration-range is said to extend 

 to the Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon, and from the 

 Azores to New Guinea. 



