620 



GRALLA TORES. 



scoLOPAcnm 



SCOLOPACID^. 



ESQUIMAUX CURLEW. 



Numenius borealis. 



Esquimaux Curlew, PENN. Arct. Zool. vol. ii. 



p. 163? Edit. 1792. 

 Numenius borealis, RICH. & SWAINS. Faun. Bor. 



Amer. p. 318, pi. 65. 

 Scolopax . WILSON, Amer. Ornith. Jar- 



dine's Edit. vol. ii. p. 313, 



pi. 56, fig. 1. 

 Numenius Small NUTTALL, Man. Ornith, vol. 



ii. p. 101. 

 AUDUB. Birds of Amer. vol. 



vi. p. 45, pi. 357. 



A COMMUNICATION to the Linnean Society of London 

 in November, 1855, announced the occurrence of this Cur- 

 lew in Scotland, and, as far as I have been able to learn, 

 its first recorded appearance in Britain. This bird was 

 killed on the 6th of September, 1855, in the parish of 



