6 SLENDER-BILLED CURLEW. 



vertex bordered with russet, those of the neck and nape with whitish 

 ash, and of the back ashy, with a russet tinge; the rump and upper 

 tail coverts pure white, the latter being marked with some longitudinal 

 brown spots; the throat and under wing and tail coverts pure white; 

 the neck in part, and the crop, marked on a whitish ground, feebly- 

 tinged with russet, with blackish brown spots, small and more like 

 drops on the throat, increasing in size on the crop and breast, where 

 they are large, distinct, and of a lanceolate form, the ground being 

 the same; these spots are still larger and rounder on the flanks as far 

 as the pure white under wing coverts. Superciliary streak, cheeks, 

 and sides of the neck ash-coloured, with fine brown spots; wing 

 coverts brown, bordered and deeply notched in four or more indenta- 

 tions with white. Primaries brown ; the first with the shaft white, 

 those which follow the fourth tipped and spotted with white on their 

 borders. Tail white, irregularly banded with brown; beak blackish 

 brown above, flesh-coloured below at the base; legs lead grey; iris 

 brown. 



The female resembles the male, but is larger, with the bill longer, 

 and the brown spots on the breast elongated, and not in drops. 



My figure is taken from a specimen in winter plumage, kindly sent 

 me by Canon Tristram, and marked '^Constantino, Feb. 6th., 1857." 



This species has also been figured by Bonaparte, Faun. Ital.; Savi, 

 Ornith. Toscan.; Naumann, Vogel Deutschlands, pi. 218; Gould, Birds 

 of Europe, pi. 304; Roux, Orn. Prov., vol. ii, pi. 218; and Dresser, 

 Birds of Europe. 



Numenius Jiudsonicus. — It is worthy of note that in May, 1872, a 

 solitary individual of this American species was obtained in the Coto 

 de Donana, to the south of Seville, by Lord Lilford, who recorded 

 the fact in the "Ibis" for 1873. 



