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GRALLATORE8. 



SCOLOPACIDJJ. 



SCOLOPACID^J. 



THE CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa subarquata. 



Numenius pygmceus, Pigmy Curlew, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 38. 



Scolopax MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 42. 



Tringa subarquata, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 107. 



Curlew Tringa, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 157. 



Pigmy Curlew, JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 208. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Becasseau cocorli, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 609. 



TRINGA. Generic Characters. Beak of moderate length, about as long 

 as the head, sometimes slightly curved, rather flexible, compressed at the 

 base, depressed, dilated, and blunt towards the point, both mandibles 

 grooved along the sides. Nostrils lateral, pierced in the membrane lining 

 the groove. Legs slender, lower part of tibia naked ; three toes before, 

 one behind, those in front entirely divided to their origin, the hind toe 

 articulated upon the tarsus. Wings of moderate size, pointed, the first 

 feather always the longest. 



THE species last described leads, by an easy gradation, 

 to the true Sandpipers or marine Snipes, most of which, as 



