CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



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 SCOLOPACIBJ'.. 



Tringa subarquata (Giildenstadt*). 

 THE CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Trliu/a siiJ)arqii<ihi. 



One of the earliest notices of the Curlew Sandpiper, or 

 Pigmy Curlew, as a British bird, occurs in Boy's ' History 

 of Sandwich,' in reference to a specimen shot in that neigh- 

 bourhood, and Pennant mentions a second example killed in 

 August, at Greenwich. This species was formerly considered 

 to be a rare visitor to this country, but it probably remained in 

 some instances undistinguished, when in its winter plumage, 

 from the Dunlin at the same season ; the beak, however, is 

 longer, rather more slender, as well as more curved ; the legs 

 longer and thinner, and the bare part above the joint of 

 greater extent: there is also a constant and marked difference 

 on the rump and in the upper tail-coverts, which in this bird 

 are invariably white, whereas in the Dunlin the feathers along 



* Scolapax subarquata, A. J. Giilileiistiidt, Nov. Cuiiiiii. rctrnp. xix. p. 471, 

 |il. xviii. (1775). 



