366 CLASS AVES. 



Numenius Rufus. Vieill. 

 Gal. 245. 



Bill and top of head, black ; neck, black striped on 

 reddish ground, reddish spots on several parts of 

 plumage, especially on rump. North America. 



Numenius Brevirostris. Licht. 

 T. Col. 381. 



Crown, blackish, streaked with whitish, no medial line; 

 long axillary feathers, banded with black and rusty ; 

 bill, very short, but little curved. America, North 

 and South. 



Charles Bonaparte considers this the same as N. Bo- 

 realis, of Latham, but not of Mr. Ord. See Amer. 

 Orn. ij. t. 



N.B. The bill in this genus, and in almost all this family, 

 becomes elongated with age.* 



The Snipes. Scolopax. Cuv. 



Have the bill straight, the furrow of the nostrils pre- 

 vailing to the point, which is swelled a little exter- 

 ternally, to pass the lower mandible, on the middle 



• Also have been named the Luzormn Curlew. Lath. Numen. Luzo- 

 mensis. Lath. Son. Ind. t. 84. N. AtricapiUus. Vieill. 



Otaheite Curlew. Num. Tahitienris. Lath. Otaheite. 



White-headed Curlew. Num. Leucocephalus. Lath. Hist. viii. t. Africa. 

 Perhaps Tantalus Hogedash. Haselq. 



See also the Chili Curlew. &c. of Rhela, and the Derkomai Curlew, of 

 Abyssinea. Lath. Hist. 



Numenius Pygmeus is a Tringa. 



