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COMMON WHIMBIIEL. 
(Phaeopus arquatus.) 
Ph. rostra nigro, pedibus ccerulescentibiis, maculis dorsnlibus Jhscis 
rhomhodnJihus, nronygio albo. 
Whimbrel with the beak black, the legs bluish, the back with 
brown rhomboidal spots, the rump white. 
Numenius phseopus. Lath, Ind. Orn. ii. 711. Atk. camp. 140. 
Numeiiius hudsonicus. Latli. hid. Orn. ii. 712. 
Scolopax phaeopus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 657. Limi. Syst. Nat. 
1.243. 
Scolopax borealis. Gmel. Si/st. A'at. 1 . 654 ? 
Numenius minor. Briss. Orn. v. 317- 27. 
Arquata minor. Rai/. Syn. 103. J. 2. Will. Orn. 217. 
Le petit Courlis ou le Corlieu. Bitff. Ois. 8. 27. Buff. PL 
Enl. 842. 
Eskimaux Curlew. Pe)in, Arct. ZooL ii. 461. ? 
Hudsonian Curlew. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. i. 243. 
Courlis Corlieu. Tcmm. man. d'Orn. 389. Id. 2. Edit. ii. 604. 
^Vhimbrel. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 177. Penn. Arct. Zool ii. 462. 
B. Ediv. Birds, PI. 307. Lath. Gen. Syn. v. 123. Leiv. 
Brit. Birds, iv. PL 154. JValc. Syn. ii. 134^ Don. Brit. 
Birds, iii. PL 72. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup. Beiv. Brit. 
Birds, ii. 57. 
This bird is rather more than sixteen inches long : 
the whole of the plumage is of a bright ash, with 
longitudinal brown spots on the neck and on the 
breast : on the middle of the head is a longitudinal 
band of yellowish white, accompanied on each side 
with another, which is twice as broad and brown : 
the belly and abdomen are white : the feathers 
on the back and the scapulars are of a very deep 
brown in the middle, and paler brown at their edges : 
