This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. I. No, I.--Page 25. THE CURLEW TRIBE. The bill is long, equally incurvated, and terminated in a blunt point; nostrils linear, and longitudinal near the base; tongue short and sharp-pointed; and the toes are connected as far as the first joint of the membrane. With the curlew, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. I. No, I.--Page 25. THE CURLEW TRIBE. The bill is long, equally incurvated, and terminated in a blunt point; nostrils linear, and longitudinal near the base; tongue short and sharp-pointed; and the toes are connected as far as the first joint of the membrane. With the curlew, Linnseus begins a numerous tribe of birds under the genine name of Scalopax, which, in his arrangement, includes all the snipes and godwits, amounting, according to Latham, to forty-two species and eight varieties, spread over various parts of the world, but nowhere very numerous. Buffon describes fifteen species and varieties of the curlew, and Latham ten, only two or three of which are British birds. They feed upon worms, which they pick up on the surface, or with their bills dig from the soft earth: on these they depend for their principal support; but they also devour the various kinds of insects which swarm in the mud and in the wet boggy grounds, where these birds chiefly take up their abode. Curlew. Scalopax arquata, --Lin. Le Courlis, --Stiff.") " The curlew generally measures about two feet in length, and from tip to tip above three feet. The bill is about seven inches long, of a regular curve, and tender substance at the point, which is blunt. The upper mandible is black, gradually softening into brown towards the base; the under one fleshcoloured. The head, neck, upper part of the back, and wing coverts, are of a pale brown, the middle of each feather black, edged and deeply indented with pale rust colour, or light gray. The breast, belly, and lower part of the back, are dull white, the latter thinly spotted with black, and the two former with oblong strokes, more thickly set, of the same colour. The quill feathers are black, the inner...
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