LIMOSA. 119 
Genus MESOSCOLOPAX Sharpe, 1896. 
In structure this genus is similar to Nwmenius but the tarsus is trans- 
versely scutellated both in front and behind. 
102. MESOSCOLOPAX MINUTUS (Gould). 
PYGMY CURLEW. 
Numenius minutus GouLpD, Proce. Zool. Soe. (1840), 176. 
Mesoscolopaxr minutus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 371; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 159; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 25. 
Marinduque (Steere Hxp.); Mindanao (Mearns). China, eastern Siberia, 
Korea, and Mongolia; in winter Japan to Australia. 
“Adult female-—Above blackish, mottled with sandy-buff spots and 
margins; wing-coverts blackish brown, with sandy-buff edges inclining to 
whitish on greater coverts, which show traces of dusky bars; lesser coverts, 
alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown; first primary with a 
white shaft, all the quills rather paler brown on inner web; long inner 
secondaries tawny on both webs, with dark brown centers and notches ; 
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts blackish, mottled with spots of 
ashy white, with which color also the feathers are tipped: upper tail- 
coverts regularly barred with ashy and blackish; tail-feathers ashy gray 
narrowly barred with blackish ; bars six in number, but not always strictly 
continuous across the feathers ; crown blackish, feathers slightly margined 
with sandy buff; along center of crown a pale streak of the latter color; 
lores, eyebrow, and sides of face uniform isabelline buff; upper margins 
of ear-coverts slightly streaked with dark brown; throat whitish; lower 
throat and fore neck sandy buff like the sides of body, the former streaked, 
and the latter barred with dusky brown; center of breast, abdomen, and 
under tail-coverts isabelline whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillars pale 
sandy buff, with bars of dusky brown, mostly triangular in shape, the 
axillars having a slight vinaceous tinge. ‘Bill blackish brown, flesh-color 
at base of lower mandible; feet gray; iris dark brown.’ (Dybowski.) 
Length, 330; culmen, 44; wing, 180; tail, 72; tarsus, 46. (Sharpe.) 
“Obtained by Bourns in 1888, while with the Steere Expedition, and 
not mentioned by Steere.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Genus LIMOSA Brisson, 1760. 
Legs and bill long and slender, the latter gently curved upward; cul- 
men, 100 mm. or more. 
Species. 
a‘. Tail barred with blackish brown and white..................--...----------- baueri (p. 120) 
a, Tail with a white base and broad, black, terminal band; upper tail-coverts 
PEI ee Be eee ee limosa (p. 121) 
