NUMENIUS. 365 



throughout most of its North-American range ^^. — Mexico {Beppe & Schiede ^ ^, 

 Sumichrast ^^), Matamoros {Dresser ^), Eio Guerrero, Chihuahua (Lloyd ^^), San 

 Bias, Tepic, Zacatecas (Bichardson^^), Mazatlan {Grayson'^^, Kegel ^^), Guanajuato 

 and Guadalajara {Bug^s ^^), Valley of Mexico (Herrera ^'^ ^^), city of Mexico 

 {WhUe'^), Juchitan, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast ^^),'Lagu.na de San Baltazar, Puebla 

 (Ferrari-Perez'^^), Cozumel I. (Gaumer ^ ^^) ; Guatemala, Duenas, Chiapam 



(O.S.'^ 21)._CuBA 21 ; JAMAICA 21. 



The Long-billed Curlew has a somewhat restricted range for a member of the genus 

 Numenius, and its winter-quarters do not seem to extend south of Guatemala. It 

 inhabits North America, extending to Manitoba, and is said to breed throughout this 

 portion of its range, nesting even in the Southern Atlantic States. The species is only 

 a winter visitor to Central America, where it occurs on both coasts, and passes through 

 the Valley of Mexico on migration. In Guatemala we found N. longirostris to be far 

 less common than N. hudsonicus. 



In the breeding-season the present species is found, according to Mr. EUiot, in 

 grassy and wet situations. In winter it assembles in flocks, and can be easUy decoyed 

 within shot, but during the nesting-time is a shy and wary bird. Its food consists 

 of small Crustacea, worms, insects, and berries 20. The nest is a mere depression in 

 the ground, and the eggs, four in number and pyriform in shape, are of a pale 

 greenish stone-colour, rather densely marked with greyish-brown and underlying pale 

 purple ; the surface-markings have generally a streaky appearance, especially at the 

 larger end. 



2. Numenius hudsonicus. 



Hudsonian Curlew, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. i. p. 243 \ 



Numenius hudsonicus, Lath. Ind. Oru. ii. p. 713'; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 313'; Salv. Ibis, 1865, 



p. 190 * ; 1866, p. 197 ' ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 377 ' ; Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, 1870, p. 363'; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 309"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 48'; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 333"; Baird, Brewer, & Eidgw. Water- Birds 



N. Amer. i. p. 315 " ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 130 " ; A. 0. U. 



Check-I. N. Amer. Birds, 3nd ed. p. 97 "; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 157 " ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 364 ''. 

 Ptil. hieni. Supra fusco-brunneus, plumis grisescenti-albido maculatis vel marginafcia ; dorso postico, uropygio 

 et supracaudalibus brunneis rufo transfasciatis ; alls dorso concoloribuB ; primariis saturate brunneis, 

 iutus dentatim fasoiatis vel maculatis, secuudariis regulariter brunneo et fulvo transfasciatis, intimis 

 fere brunneis ; rectricibus fumoso-brunneis, brunneo- vel rufescenti-fulvo transfasciatis ; pileo utrinque 

 nigricanti-bruuneo, medialiter striga longitudinali palHda omato; loris fuscis ; supercilio late albido, 

 postice minute nigro striolato ; facie lateral! albida, nigro striolata ; gula albida ; corpore reUquo pallide 

 cervino, abdomine pallidiore, colic et prsepectore brunneo striolatis ; hypochondriis brunneo late fasciatis ; 

 subalaribus cervinis, brunneo maculatis vel fasciatis ; axiUaribus regulariter brunneo et paUide rufescente 

 transfasciatis : rostro brunnescenti-uigro, mandibulse basi pallide carnea ; pedibus grisescenti-cseruleis ; 

 iride saturate brunnea. Long, tota circa 15-0, alee 9-1, caudje 3-5, culm. 3-8, tarsi 2-35. (Descr. feminae 

 adultae ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 



