176 BAY-BIRDS. 
pale reddish-brown; head and neck streaked with 
dusky ; upper parts marked with blackish-brown ; 
tail barred with the same; abdomen, plain reddish- 
brown; fect, bluish. Length, twenty-six inches; 
wing, eleven.. The bill of the specimen from which 
this description is taken measures eight inches. 
The bills of individuals of this species vary, but the 
length is at all times sufficient to determine the 
species.” — Giraud. 
FUrE. 
Doe-bird.—Esquimaux Curlew. 
Numenius Borealis, Lath. 
This is an upland bird, quite rare, but large, and 
rather delicate eating. 
“ Snecific Character.—Bill, along the gap, about 
two inches and a quarter; tarsi, one inch and five- 
eighths; upper parts, dusky brown, with pale yel- 
lowish-white, marked all over with pale reddish- 
brown. Adult with a line of white from the bill to 
the eye; eyelids, white; upper part of the head 
dusky, spotted in front with greyish-white, a medial 
band of the same color; throat, white; neck and 
breast yellowish-grey, with longitudinal marks of 
dusky on the former, pointed spots of the same color 
on the latter; abdomen, dull yellowish-white; flanks, 
barred with brown; lower tail coverts the same as 
the abdomen; tail and upper tail coverts barred 
with pale reddish-brown and dusky, tipped with 
yellowish-white ; upper parts brownish, the feathers 
