10 Prof. J. Reinhai'dt on the Birds 



1765t. Misunderstanding the words of Fabricius^ Holboll in 

 his memoir erased the bird (never since observed) from the Green- 

 land Avifauna. But in 1856 a young Heron was found dead near 

 NenortaHk, and sent to the Royal Museum ; and this occurrence 

 not only gives the species a claim to be enumerated here, but 

 makes it not unlikely that the old missionary may have been right. 



45. Numenius phcEopus (Linn.). 



I have in the last years seen five or six specimens, sent from all 

 parts of Greenland, and know that six others were formerly sent 

 to my late father in the years 1831-35. Therefore, though 

 Holboll doubts it, I should not be surprised if this Curlew in 

 future proved to breed in Greenland. Prince Bonaparte has 

 rather indicated than described J a Numenius melanorhynchus 

 from Greenland (and Iceland), which he supposes has formerly 

 been mistaken for the true N. phaeopus. Of course there can be 

 scarcely any doubt that his new species is the same bird, which 

 I still consider to be the European, and, with all due regard for 

 the high authority, I cannot give up this opinion. 



46. ^Numenius hudsonicus, Lath. 



I myself have never seen more than one specimen of this bird 

 from Greenland — a female sent from Godthaab by Holboll, and 

 described and figured by my father (Ichth. Bidr. p. 19. pi. 2) ; 

 but Holboll mentions that he obtained the bird twice, at Juliane- 

 haab and Fiskensesset ; and a fourth specimen (a very bad 

 one) was sent some thirty years back to the Royal Museum from 

 Jacobshavn, but seems not to have been preserved. 



47. ^Numenius borealis, Lath. 



The Royal Museum possesses two specimens of this little 

 Curlew, which indeed were not received directly from the 

 Museum's own collectors, but bought at second-hand here in 

 Copenhagen. I have, however, no dovibt about their Greenland 

 origin, and they are, I believe, the only specimens ever obtained 

 there. One of them was brought from Greenland in 1858, and 

 is said to have been shot at Julianehaab; about the other I 

 know no particulars. 



t David Cranz, Fortsetzung der Historic von Gronlaud, p. 214. Barbv 

 und Leipzig, 1770. % Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 1021. 



