372 CHAEADRIID.E. 



? Numenius brevirostiis (nee Licht.), Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. 

 Ind. xxv. p. 255 (1863) ; id. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 137. 



Adult female. General colour above blackish, mottled with sandy- 

 buff' spots and margins to the feathers ; wing-coverts blackish brown, 

 with sandy-buff edges inclining to whitish on the greater coverts, 

 which show traces of dusky bars ; lesser wing-coverts as well as 

 the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown ; first 

 primary with a white shaft, all the quills rather paler brown on the 

 inner web, the long inner secondaries tawny on both webs, with 

 dark brown centres and notches ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts blackish, mottled with spots of ashy white, with which 

 colour also the feathers are tipped ; upper tail-coverts regularly 

 barred with ashy and blackish ; tail-feathers ashy grey narrowly 

 barred with blackish, the bars being six in number, but not always 

 strictly continuous across the feathers ; crown of head blackish, the 

 feathers slightly margined with sandy buff ; along the centre of the 

 crown a pale streak of the latter colour : lores, eyebrow, and sides 

 of face uniform isabelline buff : upper margins of the ear-coverts 

 slightly streaked with dark brown : throat whitish ; lower throat 

 and fore-neck sandy buff like the sides of the body, the former 

 streaked, and the latter barred with dusky brown ; centre of breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts isabelline whitish ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale sandy buff, with bars of dusky brown, 

 mostly triangular in shape, the axillaries having a slight vinaceous 

 tinge : " bill blackish brown, flesh-colour at the base of the lower 

 mandible ; feet grey ; iris dark brown " (Dyhoivski). Total length 

 13 inches, culmen 1*75, wing 7*1, tail 2-85, tarsus PS. 



Hab. Breeds in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia, and passes through 

 Japan and China on its migrations to the Moluccas and Australia. 



a. $ ad. sk. Shanghai, April. Shanghai Museum. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Port Albany, Cape York. Purchased. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Queensland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. c? ad. sk. Maitland, New South Wales, J. Gould, Esq. 



April. 



43. LIMOSA. 



Type. 



Limosa, Briss. Orn. v. p. 261 (1760) L. lapponica. 



Actitis, pt., Illig. Prodr. p. 262 (1811) L. lapponica. 



Limicula, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 245 (1816) L. lapponica. 

 Fedoa, Stephens, Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 70 (1824) .... L. fedoa. 



Ranye. Almost cosmopolitan. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Axillaries white, with or without dusky bars. 



a'. Tail regularly barred with black and white. 



a". Lower back and rump white, with a 



few dusky spots lapponica, p. 373. 





