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N 0 U . Hudfonian C.
t. 4- COMMON*
CURLEW..
Common Curlew, Gen. Syn. v. p. u g . N* I.
Scolopax arquata, Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 109.
T p H I S bird appears both in Chinefe drawings, and thofe fronv
^ j n£ a . we may therefore conclude it to inhabit both thofr
places.
WHITE-HEADED
C.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
P l a c e .
White-headed Curlew, Gem Syn- v,- P~I?3* 5 -
New Species of Tantalus, SparrnC. Voy. i. p. zSi.
T \ R . Sparrman defcribes a bird very fimilar, i f not the fame
wkh this fpecfes. The bill is five inches long, black at the
tip and lower neb ; the upper neb red: the neck alh-colour j back-
the fame, with a call: o f green and a little yellow : the wings dark
beneath, and above of a blue colour, inclining to black : the leffer
wing coverts violet r the tail wedge-lhaped, twice the length of
the bill,-and the body fomewhat larger than that of a Hen-.: thighs-
alh-colour: feet, legs, and membrane between, blackilh. l a
other refpefb it had a ll the charafteriftic marks of the Tantalus .
This inhabits the neighbourhood o f the Cape o f Good Hope, and:
is called by the colonifts Hagdajh and Hadelde., fuppofed from-
• Does he mean that the face was naked f I f fo,.it ihould certainly be rank,
ed with the Tantalus, or Ibis; but it is not mentioned in-his defcription.
the
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the bird’s note. Met with in great numbers about ZwaH-kops-
rivier : the fame called by the Hottentots, Tàkaikene. It lives on
bulbs and roots, which it digs up with the bill. Is fhy, and roods
on trees of nights'. It is faid to be a fign of rain, if this bird flies
in great flocks againft the wind.
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Elkimaux Curlew, Arli. Zool. ii. N° 364.
-HUDSONTAN
J ^ E N G T H feventeen inches. Bill nearly fo u r ; colour black
the upper mandible hangs over the lower : the head, neck, D escription,
and breaft, whitilh: the chin, and before the eye, plain 5 the reft
dalhed with brown freaks, moil fo on the breaft: top o f the head
deep chocolate brown, divided down the middle by a white line,
and the fides of it above the eyes bounded With white: between
the bill and eye brown : region of the ears brownilh : the upper
part of the body and wings brown, mottled with white; but the
back and fcapulars are alfo marked with fpots o f whites thofe on
the rump are more numerous, and incline to ferruginous : belly,
thighs, and vent, white: fides crofted with narrow bars of brown :
quills brown, the inner margins fpotted with dufky white, lhafts
white: the wings and tail even ; the laft brown, crofted with fe-
ven or eight blackilh bars, a quarter o f an inch broad : legs
blueilh black : toes divided to their origin.
Inhabits Hudson's Bay, from whence I was favoured with a fpe- pLAcr.
cimen procured by Mr. Hutchins. „
This.is the EJkimaux Curlew of the ArBtc Zoology-, but not that
o f the Philofopbical TranfaSlions *, defcribed by Dr. Forfter. This
I am well aflured of, having both of them in my colleftion; as alfo
the variety o f our CommonCurlew, as defcribed before in its place t>
Vol, lxii, p.411. See Gen, Syn, v. p. 125.
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