AVES. 
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Genus 24.—NUMENIUS.— Brisson. 
Generic Character. —Bill long, slender, arcuated, compressed, 
hard, and slightly obtuse at the point; upper mandible project¬ 
ing a little beyond the under one, rounded at the tip, with a 
groove three-fourths of its length ; nostrils lateral, linear, and 
situated in the furrow; legs slender, long; tibia half naked; 
three anterior toes, united the length of the first joint by a mem¬ 
brane ; the hallux short, articulated a little way from the bot¬ 
tom of the tarsus, nail touching the ground ; wings long, the 
first quill longer than the others. 
Numinius arquata. — The Curlew. 
Plate LXII. fig. 3. 
Reddish ash-coloured above, with longitudinal brown spots 
on the neck and breast; abdomen white, with oblong spots; 
tail whitish ash-colour, with transverse brown bars; upper man¬ 
dible brownish-black, under one flesh-coloured ; irides brown ; 
legs deep ash. Two feet long. Inhabits Europe. 
Genus 25. — TRINGA.— Brisson. 
Generic Character. —Bill of medium size, soft and flexible, 
long in some species, and slightly arcuated, tip straight or 
curved, compressed at the base, depressed, dilated, and obtuse 
at the tip ; both mandibles grooved nearly to their extremities; 
nostrils lateral, placed in the membrane which clothes the na¬ 
sal furrow ; legs long, slender; lower half of tibia naked ; three 
entirely divided anterior toes, in some species, however, the 
outer toe is connected by a membrane; hallux articulated on 
the tarsus a little way higher than the toes ; wings of medium 
length, the first quill longest. 
Section I_With the anterior toes entirely divided. 
Tringa cinerea. — The Red Knot. 
Plate LXVIII. fig. 6.. 
Head and upper parts yellow ash-colour, with arrow-shaped 
brown bars, and clouded with rust-colour; face, throat, breast, 
and abdomen, rich chestnut; venter, crissum, and tail-coverts, 
white ; quills and bill black ; legs dusky-brown. Nine and a 
half inches long. Inhabits Europe and America. 
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