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WHIMBREL. 
LITTLE WHAAP. WHIMBEEL CUELEW. 
Numenius phoeopus , 
“ hudsonicus, 
u minor, 
Scolopax phoeopus, 
Phoeopus arquatus , 
Arquata minor , 
Pennant. 
BrissOn. 
Brisson. 
Montagu. 
Stephens. 
Bay. 
Numenius . Numenia— The New Moon, from the crescented shape of the bill. 
Phoeopus . Phaios— Dark. Ops — The countenance. 
This species is very closely allied to the Curlew, but is not 
nearly so numerous. 
Northward it visits Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland, 
the Ferroe Islands, and Iceland; and to the south is seen in 
Italyj Spain, France, Friesland, Holland, Germany, and the 
Islands of the Mediterranean. In India it has been found 
in the Himalayan range, Bengal, Java, and the region of 
the Caucasus; and in Africa, in the northern parts; as also 
in Madeira. America is given too as one of its countries; 
so is also New Holland. 
• These birds are met with not uncommonly on the moors 
above Sheffield; also, though rarely, near Hebden Bridge, 
Doncaster, Halifax, and Huddersfield. I once shot one in 
Dorsetshire, on the sea-coast, near Charmouth. It was a 
very low tide, and I had to get near the bird as well as I 
could over the open shore, there being no cover of any 
sort. In the end, however, I succeeded, much to my self- 
gratulation at the time. In Norfolk the Whimbrel fe common; 
one was shot at Sutton Marsh, near Wisbeach, on the 9th. 
of May, 1850. 
