186 Mr. G. T. Fox's Notice of some rare Birds. 



The following attempt to discriminate the three species may be found 

 useful. 



1. RED or CURLEW-DUNLIN. PYGMY CURLEW of Authors. 



Bill, curved, much longer than the head ; length of the tarsi, an inch and an half. Tail 



coverts, above and below, white, blotched with black. Belly and vent (in summer plumage) 



blotched with chesnut red. 



Tringa subarquata, Temm., ii. 609. 



Numenius pygmaeus, Bechst. 



Red Dunlin, Stephens, in Shaw's Zool. 



Pygmy Curlew, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Pygmy Sandpiper, Bewick's Br. Birds, Supp., and Pygmy Curlew of last, or 6th Ed., 1826. 



Red Sandpiper, Pennant and Latham. 



2. VARIABLE or COMMON DUNLIN. 



Bill, almost straight, (occasionally curved) ; length of the tarsi, one inch. 



Tringa variabilis, Temm. 



Tringa alpina, T. Cinclus, var /3., Gmel. 



The Purre, Pennant, and Authors. 



BROAD-BILLED DUNLIN. 



Bill, curved, much depressed at the base ; length of the tarsi, three-quarters of an inch. 

 Throat, belly, and vent, pure white. 



Tringa platyryncha, Temm., ii. 616. 



Numenius pygmaeus, Lath., iii. 127. 



Numenius Africanus, Lath., iii. 126. 



(Exclude the Pygmy Curlew of Latham from Temminck's Synonymes of this species). 



