582 



SCOLOPACID.E. 



streak ; legs and toes pale blue, becoming lead blue a few 

 days after death. 



Among the Curlews, the Godwits, Snipes, Sandpipers 

 and others, the females are the largest, and, in a pair of 

 the species now under consideration, remarkably so : the 

 female measured twenty-six inches ; the wing twelve 

 inches and one quarter : the male in the whole length 

 twenty-one inches, the wing eleven inches and a half. 

 The first quill-feather of the wing the longest in both. 



The vignette represents the young of the Curlew, for the 

 opportunity of figuring which I am indebted to the kind- 

 ness of T. C. Heysham, Esq. of Carlisle. 



