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40 | THE. NATURAL HISTORY 
Genus 47, SCOLOPAX. ; 
The bill is weak, flender, blunt, and longer than the ( 
head. 
The noftrils are linear, or very narrow. “ 
The forehead covered with feathers. 
Four toes. They reft upon the toe behind as well “t 
“es the other three. 
it RLEW 5S are of the Genus Scolopax. 
The common Curlew’s beak is very. 
Jong, flender, and furrowed; it is of an equal 
bend all its length, and ends in a blunt point; it” 
is of a weak and tender fubftance, and feems de- 
figned for picking worms out of foft ground. 
The neck and legs are long ; the legs are of a 
bluifh colour, in part naked ; its bill is five or fix 
inches in length, and its wings, when extended or 
{pread, are more than three feet acrofs, and {potted 
with black and white. 
Curlews feed on worms, flugs, infeéts, and 
fmall cruftaceous fifh, fuch as fhrimps, prawns, 
little crabs, and lobfters, which they find on the 
- fea fhore, in the mud, or in marfhes and moift 
meadows. They run very faft, and fly in flocks. 
The Curlew is found all the year in England; 
in the fummer it retires inland to the moun- 
tains 
