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CURLEW. 
COMMON CURLEW. WHAAP. WHITTERICK. 
Numenius arquata , 
“ major, 
Scolopax arquata , 
Pennant. 
Stephens. 
Montagu. 
Numenius . Numenia — The New Moon, from the crescented shape 
of the bill. 
Arquata — Arched. 
This fine bird well comports in its native demeanour with 
the wild places which it usually frequents, both upland and 
lowland, and more especially as regards the former. 
In Europe, it inhabits Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, the 
Ferroe Islands, and Iceland. In Asia it has been received 
from Nepaul and China, and belongs likewise to Pondicherry, 
Japan, the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, the country 
near the Caucasus, and Asia Minor, as also northwards even 
to Siberia. Specimens have also been procured in Southern 
Africa. 
In Yorkshire, Curlews are sometimes seen on the moors 
in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Sheffield, and Huddersfield, 
and occasionally on those near Leeds and Hebden Bridge, as 
also near York and Doncaster. I have seen it near Burlington, 
where it also occurs. 
In Cornwall it is described by W, P. Cocks, Esq. as not 
common in the neighbourhood of Falmouth. It is very 
plentiful in Norfolk. One was met with at Frensham Pond, 
near Farnham, Surrey. They still build near Holyhead; and 
on Wixham Moss, in Shropshire; also on some of the higher 
grounds in Cornwall; and in Devonshire, on Dartmoor, as they 
used formerly to do also on Exmoor. So they do moreover 
