. Arctic zoology .. . nereous brown : lower part of the back, breaft, andbelly, white. White Curlew, Catejby,\. 82.—BeBuffan, vii. 41.—PI. Enl. 915.—Latham,\\u ,5,_ Whiti. Tantalus Albus, Lin. Sjji. 242. T With the face, bill, and legs, like the former: the whole plu-mage of a fnowy whitenefs, except the ends of the four firftprimaries, which are green. The flefh and fat is of fafi^ron-color. Thefe birds arrive in South Carolina, with the fFood Ibis and the Curlew, in great numbers, in September, and frequent thelow watery trails : continue there about fix weeks, and thenretire fou
. Arctic zoology .. . nereous brown : lower part of the back, breaft, andbelly, white. White Curlew, Catejby,\. 82.—BeBuffan, vii. 41.—PI. Enl. 915.—Latham,\\u ,5,_ Whiti. Tantalus Albus, Lin. Sjji. 242. T With the face, bill, and legs, like the former: the whole plu-mage of a fnowy whitenefs, except the ends of the four firftprimaries, which are green. The flefh and fat is of fafi^ron-color. Thefe birds arrive in South Carolina, with the fFood Ibis and the Curlew, in great numbers, in September, and frequent thelow watery trails : continue there about fix weeks, and thenretire fouth to breed. This fpecies goes away with egg. Therewas afufpicion, that the Brown and the White differed only in fex ;but experiment proved the contrary. The white kind are [^twenty 3 N a _times 460 B A Y I B I S. times more numerous than the others j the flefh of the latter alfodiffers, being of a dark color. All thefe fpecies frequent the fides of rivers, and feed on fmallfifh, cruftaceous animals, and A. Bat Ibis. TantalusFalcinellus, Z;». 5;^?. 24i.™-M«//<r,N 178.—1«//5««, iiL—Lev. Mus. T With a black face : violet-colored wings and tail : here on the authority of Mr. Mulkr 5 but this fpecies hashitherto been known only to fouthem Euro;pe, and about the Cafpiauand Black Seas, XXXVI. E S K J M A U X CURLEW, 4$x XXXVI. C U R L E W. Gen. Birds, LXVL Br. Zool. ii. W 177.—Elkimaux Curlew, Faun. Am.—Latham, iii,—Lev. Mus. 564. EsKIMAUX. With a dufky bill, near three inches long: crown of a deepbrown^ divided lengthways by a white ftripe : cheeks, neck,and breaft, of a. very pale brown, marked with fmall dufky ftreaks,pointing down the back: fcapulars and coverts fpotted with blackand pale reddifh brown : primaries dufky ; fhafts white j inner websmarked with red oval fpots: tail barred with black and light brown:legs blue. Larger than the Englifi Wkimbrel, of which it is avariety; and differs only in having its back brown infte
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