COMMON CURLEW. 
water or marshes : they live generally upon worms, 
insects, or slugs: their flight is very elevated, and they 
migrate in large bodies, but during the season of 
incubation they are solitary. They moult but once 
in the year. Their manners agree with those of the 
common species : the head is clothed with feathers, 
and the tip only of the hinder toe rests upon the 
ground. 
Rafinesque Schmaltz, in his " Precis des Decou- 
vertes et Travaux Semiologiques," p. 14. no. 8., de- 
scribes a bird, which he considers as a Numenius, 
having its beak, legs, and all its body perfectly black : 
he observes that it inhabits Sicily, and is there called 
Adclarana : he calls it N. atcrrimus. 
COMMON CURLEW. 
(Nunienhis major.) 
Nu. cinerasccnte nigroque varius, pcdibns cocrulesccntihus, alls 
nigris maculis niveis. 
Curlew varied with ash-colour and black, tlie legs blucislij the 
wings black spotted with pure white. 
Scolopax arquata. Lin. Si/st. Naf. 1. 242. ClmcL S^st. Nat. 
ii. G55. 
Numenius arquatus. Lat/i. Iiid. Orii. ii. 710. Jlk. Camp. 139. 
Numenius. Raii. Sj/ti. 103. J. 1. IFill. Oni. 21(5. 51. Briss. 
Orn . V. 3 1 1 . 1 . 
Lc Courlis. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. 19. Buff. PL Enl. 818. 
Grand Courlis cendre. Tcmm. IShni. d'Orii. 388. — Id. 2 edit, 
ii. (503. 
Common Curlew. A/bin. Birds, 1. 79. Lath. Gen. Si/ii. v. 119. 
I. Lal/i. Si/n. Slip. i. 242. Lat/i. Sj/n. Sup, ii. 306. Pc/tn. 
