Wing more than 4 inches 

 from carpal joint. 



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Feet and legs black . 



Outer tail - feathers pure 

 white. 



TEINGA. 



rufescens • • 



acuminata. 



bairdi. 



platyrhyncha 



pygmasa • • 



minuta. 



subminuta. 



temmincki. 



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Inner web of primaries mottled 

 with black. 



Bill much longer than the 

 tarsus. 



Bill twice as broad near the 

 end as at the base. 



All the characters enumerated in both groups are believed to apply to male and 

 female, old and young, in summer and winter plumage. 



TRINGA SUBARQUATA. 



CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Tringa supracaudalibus albis (hiem.), aut albis nigricaate fasciati.s^ saepe castaneo notatis (sestiv.) : Diagnosis, 

 rostro valde decurvato. 



No local races of this species are known. 



Scolopax subarquata, Guldenstddt , Nov. Comm. Petrup. xix. p. 471 (1775). 



Numenius pygmseus, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 291 (1787). 



Scolopa. africana, . ^^^.^^ ^^^^_ ^^^_ ._ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



Scolopax pygmsea [Lath.],) 



Numenius africanus {Gmel.), Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 712 (1790). 



Scolopax dethardingiij Siemssen, Handb. Mecklenb. Land- u. Wasservogel, p. 169 (1794). 



Numenius subarquata {Giild.), Bechstein, Orn. Taschenh. ii. p. 97Q (1803). 



Numenius ferrugineus, Meyer, Taschenh. ii. p. 356 (1810). 



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Variations. 



Sjiionymy. 



