. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . mp and upper tail coverts ; tail brown,brownish white or grey brown, with 6—7 bars of dark brown; lower backwhite; upper back, scapulars and wing coverts dusky or deep brown, thefeathers edged pale white or dirty fulvous; primaries dusky or dark brown,their inner webs as well as both webs of the secondaries with white bars, notreaching the shaft. Hah.—Throughout most parts of India, Burmah and Ceylon; also Europe,N. Africa, Egypt and Abyssinia. Affects the sa
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . mp and upper tail coverts ; tail brown,brownish white or grey brown, with 6—7 bars of dark brown; lower backwhite; upper back, scapulars and wing coverts dusky or deep brown, thefeathers edged pale white or dirty fulvous; primaries dusky or dark brown,their inner webs as well as both webs of the secondaries with white bars, notreaching the shaft. Hah.—Throughout most parts of India, Burmah and Ceylon; also Europe,N. Africa, Egypt and Abyssinia. Affects the same situations as the Curlew, in small flocks. In the Kurracheeharbour it is oftener seen than the Curlew, and is more shy and difficult toapproach, but unlike the Curlew it is often seen on open barren tracts, orsandy flats, far inland, in flocks of 3, 4 or half-a-dozen. It is common allalong the sea coast, mud banks and sandy islands of estuaries of rivers, or ofthe sea, and like the Curlew is a fine bird for the table ; Jerdon says it is NUMENIUS. 149 perhaps better than the Curlew, and has been called the Woodcock Numenius arquatus. The Curlew. 183. Numenius arquatus {Lm?i.), ferd., p. 683, No. 877; Dresser, , viii. p. 243, pi. ; Surfie, Sir. F. iii. p. 182 ; Murray,Vert. ZooL, Sind. p. 247; Oales, B. Br- Burnt, ii. p. 4I2 ; Murray,Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 630, No. 1314. Scolopax arquata, Linn., Syst. Nat,I, p. 242. Numenius lineatus, Cuv., Regn. Anim. i, p. 521; Blyth, I, p. 155 ; Legge, B, Ceylon p. 906.—The Curlew. Head, neck behind and in front, also the breast, rufescent ashy, or rufescentgrey brown, the feathers with dark mesial longitudinal shaft-streaks; upperback and scapulars varying from dusky to dark brown, the feathers broadlyedged fulvous or pale rufous ; upper abdomen white, the feathers with duskyshaft-streaks; lower abdomen, vent and under tail coverts pure white ; lowerback white; rump and upper tail coverts also white,
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