. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . to Francis Willughby, who, in his Ornithology, wrote :— The Whimbrel—Arqitata Johnson, in his papers communicated to us, describesthis Bird by the name of a Whimbrel, thus : It is less by halfthan a Curlew, hath a crooked bill, but shorter by an inchor more ; The Crown deep brown without speckles. TheBack under the Wings white, which the Curlew hath the colour of the whole body is more duskish or is found upon the sands in the Teezmouth. (Will. , p. 294.) Thomas Allis, 1
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . to Francis Willughby, who, in his Ornithology, wrote :— The Whimbrel—Arqitata Johnson, in his papers communicated to us, describesthis Bird by the name of a Whimbrel, thus : It is less by halfthan a Curlew, hath a crooked bill, but shorter by an inchor more ; The Crown deep brown without speckles. TheBack under the Wings white, which the Curlew hath the colour of the whole body is more duskish or is found upon the sands in the Teezmouth. (Will. , p. 294.) Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote :— Numenius phcBopus.—The Whimbrel—Rare at Hebden Bridge,very rarely met with about Halifax or Huddersfield ; occasionallyobtained at York, and not uncommon on the moors in the vicinityof Sheffield, and in the neighbourhood of Doncaster. Arthur Stricklandnever met with it himself in this county, although he has been toldit is sometimes met with ; he thinks the young Curlews may at timesbe mistaken for it. It seems passing strange that Strickland, who resided at. WHIMBREL. 647 Bridlington was personally unacquainted with the Whimbrel,whose rippling notes are familiar sounds to the ornithologiston the coast, where the bird is very regular in its appearancein spring, remaining for a few days before proceeding to itsnesting grounds, and again on the return passage south inautumn. During the vernal migration its arrival may belooked for in May with unfailing regularity, and a few instancesare known of its occurrence in the latter part of April; the2ist of that month, in the year 1901, being the earliest dateof which I have note. At times large numbers are observedon the sands above high water mark, diligently feeding onsand-hoppers, when they allow a very near approach withouttaking flight ; this movement continues throughout Mayand occasionally into June ; at Filey some were heard goingnorthward on 8th June 1896, while on the 19th of the samemonth in 1886, I re
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