CURLEW. GRALLATORES. NUMENIUS. 65 
PiareE 13. represents the bird in the natural size. 
Bill having the upper mandible black, the lower one 
flesh-coloured for one-half its length from the base ; the 
remainder, and the tip black. Chin and throat white, 
the latter with a few fine striz 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 Puxorpus, Lath. 
PLATE XIV. 
Numenius Phzopus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 711. 6.—Flem. Brit. Anim. 1. 
101. 137. 
Numenius Hudsonicus, Lath. Ind. 2. 712. 7. 
Scolopax Phzeopus, Linn. Syst. 1. 245. 4.-Gmel. Syst. 1. 657. 
Phzeopus, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 485. 
Phzeopus arquatus, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 36. pl. 5. 
Numenius minor, Briss. 5. 317. t. 27. f. 1. 
Arquata minor, Raii 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. 
Ksquimaux Curlew, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 364. 19. 
Hudsonian Curlew, Lath. Syn. Sup. 243. 
Whimbrel, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 177. Arct. Zool. 2. 462. B.— Will. 
Cost) 294.—Lath. Syn. 5. 123.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Lewin’s Br. 
He s, 4. pl. 154.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 57.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1, 101. 
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