. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . a quarter; thenaked part of the tibia, one inch and two lines; the wing,from the carpus to the tip, eleven inches and a feathering of the adult male is as follows :—The head,neck, and breast pale grey, tinged with rufous; the shaftsand central part of the feathers dusky: upper part of theback and scapulars, dusky; the feathers broadly edged withburnt-umber and brown ochre : the lower part of the backwhite, with black shaft-streaks: the tail is white, trans-versely barred with dusky brown and ochre-yellow: lower 196 SCOLOPA
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . a quarter; thenaked part of the tibia, one inch and two lines; the wing,from the carpus to the tip, eleven inches and a feathering of the adult male is as follows :—The head,neck, and breast pale grey, tinged with rufous; the shaftsand central part of the feathers dusky: upper part of theback and scapulars, dusky; the feathers broadly edged withburnt-umber and brown ochre : the lower part of the backwhite, with black shaft-streaks: the tail is white, trans-versely barred with dusky brown and ochre-yellow: lower 196 part of the breast, belly, and vent, white, with longitudinaldusky spots. The upper mandible clove-brown, and duskyat the tip; lower mandible flesh-red at the base, and duskyat the tip. Iris brown ; legs bluish ash-colour. The femaleis larger than the male, her colouring is more tinged with ash,and her legs brown. The young are smaller according to age,and their beaks also shorter, and by far less egg figured 176 is that of the WHIMBREL CURLEW. 197 GRALLA TORES. SCOLOPACIDyE. PLATE CLXXVII. WHIMBREL CURLEW. NUMENIUS PH^OPUS. The Whimbrel Curlew is a well identified, periodicalvisitant in Great Britain, but far less numerous than theCurlew last described. The northern parts of Scotland aremore generally frequented by this bird than the southern,and in the south of England it occurs only occasionally,although they may be seen during their spring and autumnalmigrations on our coasts. On the continent of Europe theWhimbrel Curlew inhabits chiefly the most northern coun-tries, such as the Faroe Isles, Iceland, Norway, as high asthe arctic circle, Sweden, Lapland, and the northern partsof Russia. In autumn this bird migrates southward, ex-tending along the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas,frequently to Friesland and Holland, but rarely to the continent of Europe below Holland it is rare ; butagain, on the borders and islands of the Mediterran
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