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c'. Secondaries and quills mainly or entirely dusky brownish ; axillars pale 

 dull cinnamon or buO'y, distinctly' barred with dusky ; lower i)arts 

 pale dull bufry. 

 d}. Crown with two broad lateral stripes of brownish dusky, enclosing a 

 narrower median stripe of bufiy ; breast, etc., narrowlj' streaked 

 with dusky; inner webs of quills spotted with buff toward 

 edges; length 16.50-18.00, wing 9.00-10.25, culmen 3.00-4.00, 

 tarsus 2.25-2.30, middle toe 1.35-1.40. Eggs 2.27 X 1-57, pale 

 olive, spotted with dull brown.. Hab. Whole of North 

 America; south, in winter, through West Indies, Middle 

 America, and greater part of South America ; bi'ceding far 

 northward.... 205. N. hudsonicus Lath. Hudsonian Curlew. 

 d}. Crown narrowly streaked with dusky, and without lighter median 

 stripe; breast, etc., with V-shaped marks of dusky ; inner webs 

 of quills entirely dusky ; length 12.60-14.50, wing 8.00-8.50, 

 culmen 2.25-2.50, tarsus 1.70-1.80, middle toe 1.00. Eggs 2.04 

 X 1-43, pale olive-greenish, olive, or olive-brownish, distinctly 

 spotted, chieflj' on larger end, with deep or dark bi-own. Hab. 

 Northern and eastern North America, breeding far northward ; 

 migrating south, in winter, through Middle America to southern 

 extremity of South America. 



266. N. borealis (Forst.). Eskimo Curlew. 

 V. Rump plain white. 



Similar to N. hudsonicus, but plumage in general rather grayer, the 

 rump white, and the axillars white, barred with grayish brown ; 

 length about 17.00, wing 9.30-10.50, culmen 3.00-3.60, tarsus 2.30- 

 2.50, middle toe 1.40. Eggs 2.39 X 1-66, light olive-brownish or 

 buffy olive, spotted with bistre and vandyke-brown. ITab. Northern 

 portions of eastern hemisphere; occasional in Greenland. 

 (1J>.) 267. N. phseopus (Linn.). "Whimbrel. 



((-. Feathers of thighs tei-minated by long, bristle-like points. 



tapper tail-coverts and tail ochraceous, the latter crossed by regular narrow 

 bands of dusky brown ; top of head plain dark brown, divided medially 

 by a stripe of buff ; axillars pale cinnamon or pinkish buff, widely barred 

 with dark brown ; upper parts in general sooty brownish, eoarselj' and 

 irrogularl)' varied with buff)'; lower parts dull buffy, the cheeks, neck, 

 and chest streaked with brown, the sides irregularly barred with the 

 same; length about 17.25, wing 9.50-10.40, culmen 2.70-3.70, tarsus 

 2.00-2.40, middle toe 1.35-1.50. Hab. Islands of Pacific Ocean and coast 

 of Ala.ska 268. N. tahitiensis (Gjiel.). Bristle-thighed Curlew. 



