GRALLiE — SCOLOPACID.E — TRINGA. 239 



THE CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa subarquata. 



plate xcv. fig. 213. 



(STATE COLLECTION. CABINET OF THE LYCEUM.) 



Tringa subarquata. Temminck, Vol. 2, p. GOO. Bonapakte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 317. 

 T. id. Nuttmll, Man. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 104. Audubon, B. of Am. Vol. 5, p- 260, pi. 333. Gikaud, Birds of 

 Long island, p. 236. 



Characteristics. Bill much longer than the head or tarsus, and somewhat curved. Rump 

 white : middle tail-feathers longest, acuminate. Naked space of tibia 

 0'75. Summer, bright bay. Length, 8'0. 



Description. Bill slender, subcylindrical, slightly rrched, scarcely enlarged towards the 

 lip, and 1-6 long. Tarsus compressed, 1"1 : hind toe very small. 



Color. Winter, cinereous. Forehead, streak over the eye, upper tail-coverts, and all be- 

 neath white ; this is also nearly the plumage of the young, in which we notice the light buff 

 on the sides of the neck and breast. Summer, general color bright bay. Crown and back 

 blackish, streaked and margined with rufous. Nape pale reddish, with a few obscure dusky 

 streaks. The female represented in the figure, killed in July, has the face, line over the eye 

 and chin light grey ; beneath, the neck, breast and belly chesnut-red, varied with white, and 

 with faint curved darkish bars. 



Length, T 5 -8' 5. 



This is another rare northern species, and common to Europe and America. It breeds in 

 high northern latitudes, and descends in small numbers as low as New-York, although it has 

 been seen in Florida. Mr. Bell informs me that he has seen it occasionally exposed for sale 

 in the market at New-York. The two specimens in the State Collection were obtained in the 

 months of July and September. The Prince of Canino, in his Geographical List, arranges 

 this and the following four species under the genus Pelidna of Cuvier. 



