360 Dr, A, Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



Ventral aspect. Chin and throat white ; breast, sides of the 

 breast, with the collar black ; all the rest white. 



1st primary longest, the rest graduated ; long scapulary feather 

 subequal to the 3rd primary; tail square. Length 9j inches; 

 alar expanse 1 7 inches. The young of the 1st year have no traces 

 either of black or chesnut, but a cinereous brown assumes its 

 place ; the feathers of the back have yellowish tips ; the feet are 

 yellowish red. 



Suh genus Numenius. 



Sub gen. char. Bill long, slender, compressed at base, de- 

 pressed at the tip, furrowed for half the length and curved ; nos- 

 trils in the furrow of the upper mandible, basal, and lateral ; legs 

 long, moderately stout ; toes short compared to the \Q:g ; thumb 

 barely reaching the ground ; front toes connected at the base; 

 1st primary longest. 



N. longirostris. Long-billed Curlew. 

 N. [Numenius) longirostris. Baird I 



D. c. Bill V inches long, brownish black, purplish flesh colour 

 below towards the base ; legs and feet greyish blue or lead colour; 

 irides dark hazel ; eggs 4, cream coloured spotte'l brown ? 



Dorsal aspect. Blackish brown, spotted and interruptedly bar- 

 red with different shades of rufous ; line round the eye brownish 

 white ; primaries brownish black on the outer edges, pale rufous 

 on the inner and barred with black ; shafts of the 1st primary 

 white; the rest of the wing pale reddish brown, with waving 

 linear bars of dusky ; axillaries plain with a few remote dusky 

 marginal streaks; tail rounded, pale rufous, with about 10 dusky 

 brown bars; crown blackish with whitish streaks and no medial 

 line. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, brownish white ; neck pale, whitish buflf", 

 streaked with black ; belly, thighs, and vent pale rufous white 

 without spots ; wing linings salmon rufous sparingly dotted with 

 blackish. 



Length about 25 inches ; alar expanse 39 inches; weight about 

 30 ounces. (Compiled from Nuttall.) 



N. Hudsonicus. Esquimaux Curlew\ 



Scolopax horealis of Wilson ! 



N. (^Phacopus) Hudsonicus. Baird 1 



v.s.p. Bill black, purplish towards the base of the under man- 

 dible ; legs and feet dark lead colour; irides hazel ; eggs 4, dark 

 bluish grey spotted with black or dark brown. 



