BRASILIAN WHIMBREL. 
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the tail is of an ashy-brown, striped with oblique 
brown bands : the beak is dusky, tinged with reddish 
at its base : the irides are brown : the feet are lead- 
coloured. The young birds have the beak short, 
scarcely one inch and a half in length and almost 
straight, whereas the old have it upwards of three 
inches in length and considerably bent. 
The Whimbrel is a migrative bird, visiting the 
British coasts about August, and remaining with us 
during the winter, keeping in small flocks of five or 
six : it feeds upon insects and worms ; and is sup- 
posed to breed in the arctic regions : it occurs in va- 
rious parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. 
BRASILIAN WHIMBREL. 
(Phaeopus Gaurana.) 
Ph. rostro flavicante, corpore fusco albo striato, 2^^dibus fHScis. 
Whimbrel with the beak yellowish, the body striated with white 
and brown, the legs bro\¥n. 
Scolopax Gaurana. Linn. Si/st. Nat. I. 242. !. Ginel. Si/st. Nat. 
I. 654. 
Guarauna. Rail, Si/n. 104. 7- 
Nunienius Gaurana. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii, 712. 
Numenius Americanus fuscus. Briss. Orn. v. 330. 
Le Gouarona. Buff. Ois. viii. 44. 
Brasilian Whimbrel. Latli. Gen. Sijn. v. 125. Mont. Orn. Diet. 
Sup. 
Brasilian Curlew. Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp. 
Larger than the common Whimbrel : its length 
being twenty-one inches : its beak is four inches long, 
