CURLEW SANDPIPER. 47 



CKA LL A TORES. SCOLOPA CIDM. 



THE CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa subarquata. 



Numenius pygmaus, Pigmy Curlew, 

 Scolopax . 



Tringa subarquata 



Curlew Tringa, 

 Pigmy Curlew, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 38. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 107. 



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 208. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 



Btcasseau cocorli, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 60.9. 



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 



