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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old name of the curlew, Numenius arquatus, from its long arcuate bill. Also written arcuata.

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  • The avifauna includes black stork Ciconia nigra, white stork Ciconia ciconia, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, greater spotted eagle A. clanga (VU), white-tailed eagle Haliaetus albicilla, great snipe Gallinaga media, corncrake Crex crex, eagle owl Bubo bubo. great grey owl Strix nebulosa and Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata.

    Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus 2009

  • Curlew the Common, _Numenius arquata_, Y.ii. 610 (there are other varieties). l.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Our results were two species of kingfishers (_alcedo_), the third and larger kind not showing; a true curlew (_Numenius arquata_), charming little black swallows (_Wardenia nigrita_), the common English swallow;

    To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • I shot one, and ascertained it to be a variety of scolopax arquata; and perceived, after I noticed the fact, that the alarm was invariably given.

    Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819

  • These birds arrive by the thousands every year and include plovers (Mongolian plover [Charadrius mongolus]), sandpipers (spoon-billed sandpiper [Eurynorhynchus pygmeus]), black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), Eurasian curlew (N. arquata), Temminck's stint (C. temminckii), and Asian openbill stork (Anastomus oscitans).

    Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests 2008

  • quorum de medio lucida flamma micat; arquata est rutilo capiti radiata corona

    The Phoenix 1912

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