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Long-billed Curlew. Numenius Longirostris. Wils. 

 Am. ii. xxiv. 4. 



Crown, blackish, with white streaks, no medial line ; 

 rump, uniform with the rest ; long axillary feathers, 

 rusty ; bill very long, much curved. North America. 

 The Sea Coast Curlew, of Bartram, the Num. Cy- 

 anopus. Vieill. and Num. Arcuata. B. Lath. 



Esquimauw Curlew. Seal. Borealis. Wils. vii. 

 Ivi. 1. 



Crown, dark-brown, with white medial line; rump, 

 uniform with the rest, long axiUary feathers, banded 

 with black and rusty ; bill, short, much curved. The 

 Numenius Hudsonicus of Latham, the Sea-side 

 Lesser Curlew of Bartram. 



The TVliimhrel. Scol. PhcEopics. Lin. Enl. 842. 

 Ed. 307. Frisch. 225. Naum. 10. f. 10. 



One-half less than the common curlew, but nearly 

 of the same plumage. Phceopus, which means 

 ash-coloured foot, is a name composed by Gess- 

 ner. The PhcBopus Arcuatus, Steph. ; the Nume- 

 nius Hudsonicus, Lath., and Scolopax BorealiSy 

 Gm. not Lath. See Edw. t. 307. Pen. Ait. Zool. 

 t. 19. 



Numenius Tenuirostris. Ch. 

 Bonap. 



Slender bill, brown and yellow at its lower base; 

 plumage with brown spots ; all the lower parts, white. 

 Egypt. 



