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tertiaries olive-green, tinged with grey, crossed by irregular 

 bars, and numerously sprinked with black ; three outer 

 primaries dark brown, crossed on their outer webs with 

 broad irregular patches of deep bufi", and sprinkled with grey 

 on the inner ; the remainder of the primaries and the second- 

 aries grey, crossed by numerous narrow irregular lines of 

 black, and spotted with white surrounded with black ; rump 

 and tail grey like the secondaries, but spotted with both 

 white and buff, each of which colours are bounded with black ; 

 breast and all the under surface white, with a large irregular 

 patch of olive- green, narrowly barred with black, on each side 

 of the chest ; bill pale green at the base, passing into brownish 

 horn-colour at the tip ; irides rather dark hazel ; legs pale 

 green. 



Family ? 



Genus NUMENIUS, Latham. 



Three species of this form are found in Australia, and others 

 inhabit Asia, Africa, and America. For the greater part of 

 the year they frequent the flat shores of the ocean, but retire 

 in spring to the upland districts of their respective countries 

 to breed. 



Sp. 535. NUMENIUS CYANOPUS, VieiUot. 



Australian Curlew. 



Numenius cyanopus, Vieill. 2nd Edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 

 torn. viii. p. 306. 



rostratus, Liclit. (Bonap.). 



australis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. p. 155. 



Wid-joo-on-ong , Aborigines of the Mun*ay River, Western Australia. 

 Man-do-weidt, Aborigines of Port Essington. 

 Curlew of the Colonists. 



Numenius australis, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vi. pi. 42. 

 In investigating the ornithology of any part of the world, 



