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ce’, Secondaries and quills mainly or entirely dusky brownish; axillars pale 
dull cinnamon or buffy, distinctly barred with dusky ; lower parts 
pale dull buffy. 
d', Crown with two broad lateral stripes of brownish dusky, enclosing a 
narrower median stripe of buffy ; breast, etc., narrowly streaked 
with dusky; inner webs of quills spotted with buff toward 
edges; length 16.50-18.00, wing 9.00-10.25, culmen 3.00-4.90, 
tarsus 2.25-2.30, middle toe 1.35-1.40. Eggs 2.27 x 1.57, pale 
olive, spotted with dull brown. Hab. Whole of North 
America; south, in winter, through West Indies, Middle 
America, and greater part of South America; breeding far 
northward.... 265. N. hudsonicus Laru. Hudsonian Curlew. 
ad. Crown narrowly streaked with dusky, and without lighter median 
stripe; breast, etc., with V-shaped marks of dusky ; inner webs 
of quills entirely dusky; length 12.60-14.50, wing 8.00-8.50, 
culmen 2.25-2.50, tarsus 1.70-1.80, middle toe 1.00. Hggs 2.04 
X 1.48, pale olive-greenish, olive, or olive-brownish, distinctly 
spotted, chiefly on larger end, with deep or dark brown. Hab. 
Northern and eastern North America, breeding far northward ; 
migrating south, in winter, through Middle America to southern 
extremity of South America. 
266. N. borealis (Forst.). Eskimo Curlew. 
o. Rump plain white. 
Similar to WV. hudsonicus, but plumage in general rather grayer, the 
rump white, and the axillars white, barred with grayish brown; 
length about 17.00, wing 9.30-10.50, culmen 3.00-3.60, tarsus 2.30- 
2.50, middle toe 140. Hggs 2.39 x 1.66, light olive-brownish or 
buffy olive, spotted with bistre and vandyke-brown. Hab. Northern 
portions of eastern hemisphere; occasional in Greenland. 
(19.) 267. N. phzopus (Linn.). Whimbrel. 
a, Feathers of thighs terminated by long, bristle-like points. 
Upper tail-coverts and tail ochraceous, the latter crossed by regular narrow 
bands of dusky brown; top of head plain dark brown, divided medially 
by a stripe of buff; axillars pale cinnamon or pinkish buff, widely barred 
with dark brown; upper parts in general sooty brownish, coarsely and 
irregularly varied with buffy; lower parts dull buffy, the cheeks, neck, 
and chest streaked with brown, the sides irregularly barred with the 
same; length about 17.25, wing 9.50-10.40, culmen 2.70-3.70, tarsus 
2.00-2.40, middle toe 1.35-1.50. Had. Islands of Pacific Ocean and coast 
of Alaska.......0«.. 268. N. tahitiensis (GmzL.). Bristle-thighed Curlew. 
