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few black ftrokes : the quil feathers are black, 
but the inner webs fpotted with white : the tail 
white, tinged with red and beautifully barred 
with black; the legs are long, ftrong, and of a 
D S, 119 
bluifh grey color : the bottoms of the toes flat 
and broad, to enable it to walk on the fbft mud,, 
in fearch of food. 
SPECIES II 
JVil. orn. 294. 
Rail fyn. av. 103 . 
Edzo. av. 307 . 
Scolopax Phieopus. Lin. fyft. 146. 
T H E whimbrel is much lefs frequent on 
our fhores than the curlew; but its 
haunts, food, and general appearance 
fs much the fame : the fpecific difference is the 
iize $ this never exceeding the weight of twelve 
ounces; the marks in both agree perfectly, except 
GENUS III. 
SPECIES I. 
WtL orn. 289. 
Raii fyn. av. 104* 
Rrijjbn av. V. 292, 
T HESE birds during fummef are in¬ 
habitants of the Alps , * of Norway, 
Sweden f and the northern parts of 
Europe : they all retire from thofe countries the 
beginning of winter, ns foon as the frefts com¬ 
mence ; which force them into milder climates, 
where the ground is open, and adapted 1.0 theii 
tnanner of feeding. They live On worms, which 
they fearch for with their long bills in foft ground 
and moift woods. Woodcocks generally arrive 
here in flocks, taking advantage of the night, or 
a mi ft : they foon feparate ; but before they re¬ 
turn to their native haunts, pair. They feed and 
fly by night; beginning their flight in the even- 
* Wil om. 290. -f M. de Geer's and Dottor Wallcrius's letters to ons 
of the editors. 
The Whimbrel, 
Numenius minor. Briffon av. V. 
317. Tab. 27. 
Phaeopus altera, vel arquata minor. 
Gefner av. 499. 
that the belly and breaft in this are perfectly 
white; the colors are paler: the edges of the 
feathers in the whimbrel being of a very light 
brown ; the middle of a deep brown, in fome 
duiky : the legs and feet of a dull green. 
WOODCOCKS. 
The Woodcock. 
Scolopax rufticola. Lin. fyft. 146. 
Rufticola, feu Perdix ruftica major. 
Gefner av. 501, 
ing; and return the fame way, or thro’ the fame 
glades to their day retreat. They leave England 
the latter end of February , or beginning of 
March ; by accident fome have been found to 
breed here : a few years ago two young ones 
beino found in Cornwal. In the fame manner 
we know they quit France , Germany and Italy ; 
makincr the northern and cold fituations their ge- 
neral fummer rendezvous. In the winter they are 
found in vaft plenty as far fouth as Smyrna and 
Aleppo , * and in the fame feafon in Barbary f, 
which are the remoteft migrations we can trace 
( 
them to. 
* Bufel’s hiji. Aleppo, p. 64. -f- Shaw’s travels p. 253. 
SPECIES 
