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c". Secondaries and quills mainly or entirely dusky brownish ; axillars pale 

 dull cinnamon or buffy, distinctly barred with dusky ; lower parts 

 pale dull buffy. 

 d}. Crown with two broad lateral stripes of brownish dusky, enclosing a 

 narrower median stripe of buffy ; breast, etc., narrowly streaked 

 with dusky ; inner webs of quills spotted with buff toward 

 edges; length 16.50-18.00, wing 9.00-10.25, culmen 3.00-4.00, 

 tarsus 2.25-2.30, middle toe 1.35-1.40. Eggs 2.27 X 1-57, pale 

 olive, spotted with dull brown. Hab. Whole of North 

 America; south, in winter, through West Indies, Middle 

 America, and greater part of South America ; breeding far 

 northward.... 265. N. hudsonicus Lath. Hudsonian Curlew. 

 cP. Crown narrowly streaked with dusky, and without lighter median 

 stripe ; breast, etc., with V-shaped marks of dusky ; inner webs 

 of quills entirely dusky ; length 12.60-14.50, wing 8.00-8.50, 

 culmen 2.25-2.50, tarsus 1.70-1.80, middle toe 1.00. :Eggs 2.04 

 X 1.43, pale olive-greenish, olive, or olive-brownish, distinctly 

 spotted, chiefly on larger end, with deep or dark brown. Hab. 

 Northern and eastern North America, breeding far northward ; 

 migrating south, in winter, through Middle America to southern 

 extremity of South America. 



266. N. borealis (Forst.). Eskimo Curlew. 

 b^. Eump plain white. 



Similar to iV. hudsonicus, but plumage in general rather grayer, the 

 rump white, and the axillars white, barred with grayish brown ; 

 length about 17.00, wing 9.30-10.50, culmen 3.00-3.60, tarsus 2.30- 

 2.50, middle toe 1.40. Eggs 2.39 X 1-66, light olive-brownish or 

 buffy olive, spotted with bistre and vandyke-brown. Hab. Northern 

 portions of eastern hemisphere ; occasional in Greenland. 



267. N. phseopus (Linn.). Wliimbrel. 

 a\ Feathers of thighs terminated by long, bristle-like points. 



Upper tail-coverts and tail ochraceous, the latter crossed by regular narrow 

 bands of dusky brown ; top of head plain dark brown, divided medially 

 by a stripe of buff; axillars pale cinnamon or pinkish buff, widely barred 

 with dark brown ; upper parts in general sooty brownish, coarsely and 

 irregularly varied with buffy; lower parts dull buffy, the cheeks, neck, 

 and chest streaked with brown, the sides irregularly barred with the 

 same; length about 17.25, wing 9.50-10.40, culmen 2.70-3.70, tarsus 

 2.00-2.40, middle toe 1.35-1.50. Hab. Islands of Pacific Ocean and coast 

 of Alaska 268. N. tahitiensis (Gmel.). Bristle-thiglied Curlew. 



