178 SCOLOPACID^. 



Limosa rufa, Macg. iv. p. 260; Hewitson, p. 343; Yarr. 



ed. 2, ii. p. 641; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 688; Gould, iv. pi. 51. 

 Limosa lapponica, Gray, p. 155 ; Harting, p. 53 ; Dresser, 



viii. p. 203. 

 The Bar-tailed Godwit, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 569. 



Lapponica of Lapland. 



A spring and autumn visitant to the British Islands, 

 breeding in Northern Europe. It extends southwards in 

 winter as far as the Gambia, and is found also as far east as 

 Scinde. 



Limosa aegocephala, BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 



Scolopax ^gocephala, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 246 

 (1766). 



Limosa melanura, Naum. viii. p. 406; Hewitson, p. 342; 



FarrTed. 2, ii. p. 634; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 681; Gould, iv. pi. 50. 

 Limosa segocephala, Macg. iv. p. 269 ; Gray, p. 156 ; Harting, 



p. 53; Dresser, viii. p. 211. 

 The Black-tailed Godwit, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 563. 



JEgocephala, the Linnean form (Willughby, Orn. p. 215, 1676, whom Lin- 

 naeus, loc. cit., quotes, giving however the wrong page, uses JEgocephalus) of 

 alyoK6(j)a\os, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, H. A. ii. 15, 7; from a'i% = a goat, 

 and KeaXr) the head. 



An autumn and spring visitant to the British Islands, 

 which formerly bred in the east of England. Distributed 

 over Europe, Asia, North Australia, and Africa as far south 

 as Abyssinia. 



Genus NUMENIUS, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 311 (1760). 



= vovprivios, a kind of Curlew in Diogenes Laertius, ix. 114 

 (about A.D. 200) ; from veos = new, and \nr\vt\ = the moon, from its " crescent " 

 beak. 



Numenius borealis. EswtM^ex CUELEW. 7 ' 



Scolopax borealis, /. R. Forster, Phil. Trans. Ixii. 



pp. 411,431 (1772). 

 Numenius borealis, Naum. viii. p. 506 ; Gray, p. 154 ; Yarr. 



