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LIMICOLM. 



scolopacidj:. 



SCOLOPACIDjE. 



NuMENius BOREALis (J. R. Forster*). 



ESKIMO CURLEW. 



Numenius horeaUs. 



A COMMUNICATION to the Linneaii Society of London in 

 November, 1855, announced the first recorded occurrence of 

 this American Curlew in Britain. This bird was killed on 

 the 6th September, 1855, in the parish of Durris, Kincardine- 

 shire, at the top of a hill on the muir, belonging to Durris, 

 called Car-monearn, one of the Grampian range, some 

 twelve hundred feet above sea-level, by Mr. W. R. Cussack 

 Smith. The bird was sent to be preserved by Mr. Mitchell, 

 Aberdeen, and was examined a few days after by Mr. J. 

 Longmuir, jun., who ascertained it to be the Eskimo Cur- 

 lew (Numenius borealis). Unluckily it was not measured 

 when in the flesh, and the sex was not observed ; but it 

 appeared to be a female, in almost complete winter livery. 



* Scolopax horeaUs, J. R. Forster, Phil. Trans. Ixii. pp. 411,431 (1772). 

 Wil.son's Scohpax borealis is the American Whimbrel (.V. hiidsonicus). 



