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PLATE 13. represents the bird in the natural size. 



Bill having the upper mandible black, the lower one General 

 flesh-coloured for one-half its length from the base ; the SMU 

 remainder, and the tip black. Chin and throat white, 

 the latter with a few fine striae of brown. The head, 

 neck and breast of a cream-yellow colour, tinged with 

 grey, with the shafts or central parts of the feathers 

 umber-brown. The upper part of the back and scapu- 

 lars deep hair-brown, with a slight glossy reflection; 

 each feather being margined and varied with greyish- 

 white, and cream-yellow. The wing-coverts hair-brown, 

 margined with skim-milk white. The lower part of the 

 back white, with narrow deep hair-brown streaks. Tail 

 barred with deep hair-brown and yellowish -grey. Belly 

 and abdomen white, streaked with brown. The quills 

 have the shafts white, the outer webs very dark hair- 

 brown, and the inner ones light hair-brown, barred half- 

 across with white. The legs and toes are bluish-grey. 



WHIMBREL CURLEW. 



NUMENIUS PHMOPUS, Lath. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Numenius Phseopus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 711. 6 Flem. Brit. Anim. 1. 



101. 137. 



Numenius Hudsonicus, Lath. Ind. 2. 712. 7. 

 Scolopax Phseopus, Linn. Syst. 1. 245. 4. Gmel. Syst. 1. 657. 

 Phseopus, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 485. 

 Phseopus arquatus, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 36. pL 5. 

 Numenius minor, Briss. 5. 317. t. 27. f. 1. 



Arquata minor, Rail Syn. 103. A. 2 Will. 217. 



Corlieu, ou le Petit Courlis, Buff. Ois. 8. 27. 



Courlis Corlieu, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 604. 



Regen Brachvogel, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 355. 



Esquimaux Curlew, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 364. 19. 



Hudsonian Curlew, Lath. Syn. Sup. 243. 



Whimbrel, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 177- Arct. Zool. 2. 462. R. Will. 



(Angl.) 294 Lath. Syn. 5. 123 Mont. Ornith. Diet Lewin's Br. 



Birds, 4. pi. 154. .Bmncfr's Br. Birds, 2. ^.Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 101. 



137. 



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