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TRINGA SUBARQUATA. THE CURLEW-BILLED 

 SANDPIPER. 



PIGMY CURLEW. PIGMY SANDPIPER. 



Scolopax subarquata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 658. Summer. 



Numenius africanus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 712. "Winter. 



Pigmy Curlew. Mont. Orn. Diet. Supplt. 



Becasseau cocorli. Tringa Subarquata. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 609. 



Tringa subarquata. Flem. Brit. Anim. 107. 



Curlew Sandpiper. Tringa subarquata. Audub. Orn. Biogr. III. 444. 



Curlew Tringa. Tringa subarquata. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 158. 



Tringa subarquata. Pigmy Curlew. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 208. 



Pelidna subarquata. Bonap. Comp. List, 50. 



Bill half as long again as the head, and considerably de- 

 curved at the end; tail with the middle feathers slightly longer 

 than the lateral ; tarsus an inch and a quarter long; hill 

 black, feet very dark olive. Plumage in winter brownish-grey 

 above, each feather with a dusky streak ; the sides and fore 

 part of the neck, with a small portion of the breast, greyish- 

 white, streaked with brownish- grey ; the throat, breast, and 

 abdomen, white; the tail-coverts white, the tail brownish-grey. 

 In summer the upper parts of the body black, mottled and 

 streaked with light red; the sides of the head, the fore part and 

 sides of the neck, and the breast, bright yellowish-red, the neck 

 faintly streaked with dusky; the tail-coverts white, spotted tvith 

 brown and red, the tail brownish-grey glossed with green. Young 

 with the feathers of the upper parts greyish-black glossed with 



