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Section 5. Toes, 4, with small web ; bill, curved down= 

 ward; bill, over 2 inches long. 



Primaries, barred ; 

 axillars, barred. 



Hudsonian Curlew. 

 Jack Curlew. 



N'umenius hudsonicus. 



Axillars. 



Nmiieimis luulsuiiicus. 



Numenius boreallB. 



Primaries, without bars ; 

 axillars, barred. 



Esquimaux Curlew. 

 Dough Bird. 



Jfumenius boreal is. 



Section 6. Toes, 4 (cleft to base), without webs. 



Aphriza virgata. 



Upper tail coverts, white. Inhabits Pacific Coast 

 of North America ; not recorded from Eastern 

 United States. 



Surf Bird. 



Aphriza virgata. 

 See page 79. 



Section 7. Toes, 3. 



Rump, orange brown ; under parts, white with two black bands on the breast ; 

 axillars, pure white. 



Killdeer Plover. 



jEgittlitis vocifera. 



See page 74. 



