328 SCOLOPACIDiE. 



the tail, the quills, and the upper wing-coverts on 

 the outside are dusky, those of the middle grey : the 

 irides are orange : the beak black, tinged with violet- 

 green at the base, and varies in length : the legs are 

 reddish. 



FAMILY III—SCOLOPACID^. 



Rostrum elongatum, gracile, clebile: ala*, mediocres ant suhelori' 

 gad: pedes mediocres, tetradnctyli; digiti antici^fissi aut mem- 

 branidu coimead, posticus debdis, elevatiis. 



Bealc elongated ; slender, weak : ivings moderate, or a little 

 elongated : legs moderate : toes four ; the anterior cleft or 

 united by a small basal membrane, the hinder one weak, 

 elevated. 



The birds of this family greatly resemble each 

 other as well in form and habit as in the distribution 

 of their colours : they feed on worms, insects, small 

 mollusca and animalcula ; and they reside in marshy 

 places. 



GENUS CCCXXXVIII.— NUMENIUS, Ray. CURLEW. 

 Generic character : vide Steph. v. xii. \. p. 25. 



GENUS CCCXXXIX.— LIMICULA, Linne. 

 GREEN-SHANK. 



AcTiTis (pars) Illiger. — Totanus (pars) Beckstein. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v. xii. ].p. 85. 



GENUS CCCXL.— TOTANUS, Beckstein. SANDPIPER. 

 Generic chai'acter: vide Steph. v. xii. I, p. 124. 



GENUS CCCXLL— RECURVIROSTRA, Linne. AVOCET. 

 AvoCETTA, Brisson. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v. xii. 1 . p. 172. 



