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NUMENIUS AKQUATUS. 



(COMMON CURLEW.) 



Scolopax arquata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 242 (1766). 



Scolopax madagascariensis, Linn. torn. cit. (1766, ex Briss.). 



Numenius arquata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 710 (1790). 



Numenius major, Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 26 (1824). 



Numenius virgatus, Cuv. Beg. An. i. p. 521 (1829). 



Numenius lineatus, Cuv. ut supra (1829). 



Numenius medius, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 609 (1831). 



Numenius nasicus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 393 (1840). 



Numenius arquatula, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844). 



Numenius assimilis, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 291. 



Numenius rufescens, Brehm, ut supra (1855). 



Numenius longirostris, Brehm, ut supra (1855). 



Curlew, Whaup, Whaap, Stock Wliaap, Whitterick, English ; Ouillneach, Gaelic ; le Courlis, 

 French ; Zarapito real, Spanish ; Magarico real, Portuguese ; Chiurlo maggiore, Italian ; 

 Gurlin, Maltese; grosser Brachvogel, German; Stor Begnspove, Bobbelspove, Dobbelt- 

 Begnspove, Uelspove, Dobbelt-Osterfugl, Osterlands-Vibe, Piposten, Begnpiber, Per-Hahn, 

 Danish ; Tangspegvi, Fa3roese ; Storspove, Norwegian ; Storspof, Vindspof, Kovipa, 

 Swedish ; Kulik kotrous, Russian ; Kulig ugorowy, Polish. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Buff. PL Enl. viii. pi. 842 ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. viii. taf. 216 ; Gould, B. Eur. iv. pi. 302 ; 

 Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 510 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 247 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. afb. xxxiii a . 

 fig. 4 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. part xv. 



Ad. suprlt brunneus, plumis extiis fulvescente limbatis, scapularibus utrinque fulvo maculatis : pileo brunneo : 

 cervice fulvescenti-alba, brunneo striolata. : macula superciliari et altera infraoculari albis : facie laterali 

 alba, brunneo minute striolata : tectricibus alarum brunneis, albido limbatis : remigibus brunneis, scapis 

 albis vel pallide brunneis, secundariis extiis albo maculatis, intus fasciatis, intimis dorso concoloribus 

 et eodem modo limbatis : dorso postico et uropygio albis, hoc nigro maculato et celate transfasciato : 

 supracaudalibus et cauda albis, nigricanti-brunneo transfasciatis, bac plus minusve cinerascenti-brunneo 

 lavata : gula alba, : corpore reliquo subtiis albido, pectore brunneo striato, hypochondriis eodem colore 

 irregulariter fasciatis, abdomine imo et subcaudalibus albis angustissime brunneo striatis : subalaribus 

 et axillaribus pure albis brunneo vix notatis : rostro saturate brunneo, ad basin carneo : pedibus 

 griseo-plumbescentibus : iride brunnea. 



Adult Male (Skara, Sweden, May 24tb) . Head and neck blackish brown, tbe feathers being more or less 

 broadly margined with dirty white and dull fulvous, giving a striated appearance ; back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts blackish brown, broadly edged and notched with pale fulvous and dirty white, some of the 



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