. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . er species. Shy, easily alarmed,and extremely vigilant, they are with diificulty run with gieat celerity; have a powerful, light, andrapid flight; and feed on insects, larva?, mollusca, andCrustacea. Their flesh is excellent, being sapid, savoury,and highly-flavoured ; and their eggs are delicious. The only character in Avhich th
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . er species. Shy, easily alarmed,and extremely vigilant, they are with diificulty run with gieat celerity; have a powerful, light, andrapid flight; and feed on insects, larva?, mollusca, andCrustacea. Their flesh is excellent, being sapid, savoury,and highly-flavoured ; and their eggs are delicious. The only character in Avhich the Curlews differ from theTringinse is their having a very short tongue, that organ beingelongated and pointed in the other species of this this respect they resemble the Tantalinoc, to which theyare further allied in the form of the bill; but from whichthev difler in that of the wings, the general style of colouringof the plumage, and in having a more muscular gizzard, withlonger cceca. Two s])ecies occur in Britain — the Curlew, properly so<-alled, and the AVhimbrel; the former indigenous, the latterpartially so, but for the most part migiatory. 243 NUMENIUS ARQUATA. THE GREAT CURLEW. \\ IIAAI. WIIAlP. STOCK WIIAAP. Scolopax Arquata. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 242. Numcuius Arquata. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 710. Common Curlew. Mont. Orn. Diet. Grand Courlis ccndre. Xumenius Arquata. Temm. ^[an. dOrn. II. 603. Common Curlew. Numcnius Arquata. Selb. lUustr. II. 62. Xumenius Arquata. Common Curlew. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 19-5. Numenius Arquata. Bonap. Comp. List, 49. Length from twcntrj-tlirec to twenty-eight inches; hillfrom Jive to seven inches. Plumage of the head, neck, andfore part of the back light reddish-grey, streaked ivith blackish-hroicn ; the hind part of the hack lohite, toith narroic longi-tudinal dark marks ; the tail white, with twelve black bars ;the breast, sides, and abdomen ichite, with lanceolate blackspots and bars. M.\LE.—The Great or Commo
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