GRALLA TORES. 



COMMON CURLEW. 



577 



SCOLOPACID&. 



THE COMMON CURLEW. 



Numenius arquata. 



Numenius arquata, Common Curlew, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p 34. 



Scolopa,v MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



The BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p 38. 



Numenius Common FLEM. Brit. An p. 101. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 62. 



JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 195. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 



Grand Courtis cendrg, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 603. 



NUMENIUS. Generic Cliaracters. Beak long, slender, curved and compressed, 

 the point hard and slightly bent ; upper mandible rather longer than the lower, 

 rounded near the end and grooved along three-fourths of its whole length. Nos- 

 trils lateral, linear, pierced in the groove. Face and lore covered with feathers. 

 Legs rather long, slender, tibia, partly naked ; three toes in front, one behind ; 



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