510 



COMMON CURLEW 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACIDJE. 





THE COMMON CURLEW. 



Numenhts arquata, Common Curlew, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 34. 



Scolopax ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, The ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 38. 



Numen'ms ,, Common ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 101. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 62. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 195. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 



,, ,, Grand Courlis cendri, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 603. 



NuMENius. Generic Characters. — Beak long, slender, curved and com- 

 pressed, the point hard and slightly bent ; upper mandible rather longer than 

 the lower, rounded near the end and grooved along three fourths of its whole 

 length. Nostrils lateral, linear, pierced in the groove. Face and lore covered 

 with feathers. Legs rather long, slender, tibia partly naked ; three toes in 



