BRITISH BIRDS, 57 
WHIMBREL. 
{Scohpax PhceopuSf Lin. — Le petite CourliSy Buff.) 
The Whimbrel is only about half the fize of th,e 
Curlew, which it very nearly refembles in fliape, 
the colours of its plumage, and manner of living. 
It is about feventeen inches in length, and twenty- 
nine in breadth, and weighs about fourteen ounces. 
The bill is about three inches long, the upper man- 
dible black, the under one pale red. The upper 
part of the head is black, divided in the middle of 
the crown by a white line from the brow to the 
hinder part t between the bill and the eyes there is 
a darkifli oblong fpot : the fides of the head, neck, 
and breaft, are of a pale brown, marked with nar- 
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