NUMEXILS. 



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Fig. 32. — To show tlie curved bill. 



69. Numenius hudsonicus. 



HUDSONIAN WhIMBKEL. 



JMonenius hudsonicus Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 712, 1790 ("Habitat in 

 sinu Hudsonis") ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 180; Quelch, Timehri (2) 

 X. p. 275, 1896 ; Sbarpe. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 364, 1896 ; 

 Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 40, no. 390, 1912. 



Numenius phaopus (nee Linn.), Cab. in Sehomb. Eeis. Guian. iii.p. 757, 

 1848. 



The " Jack Curlew or American Whimbrel^^ (Quelch). 



Adult female. General colour above pale brown irregularly 

 marked with white or bufFy-white ; tail reoularly barred with 

 buffy- white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primary-quills 

 dark brown, the latter notched on the inner webs with buff, the 

 secondaries somewhat paler and marked on both webs ; head 

 brown like the back ; superciliaries and a longitudinal line on the 

 middle of the crown whitish ; throat white ; sides of face, neck 

 all round, and breast buffy- white with brown shaft-streaks to the 

 feathers, the brown pattern being submarginal or irregular bars 

 on the abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts barred with pale brown and sandy buff. 

 " Bill brownish black, basal half of the lower mandible flesh- 

 colour; feet greyish blue, claws black; iris dark brown. "^ 



Total length 430 mm , culmen 91, wing 24G, tail 91, tarsus 61. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female, but rather smaller in 

 size. Culmen 82 mm., wing 230. 



The female described was collected on the Berbice River in 

 November 1895. 



Breeds in the Arctic Regions and is a winter visitor to Biitish 

 Guiana. 



Riuiije in British (Juiana, Al)ary River, Bcrbire River 

 ( Mc Conmll collect ion). 



