196 



SCOLOPACID.E. 



part of the breast, belly, and vent, white, with longitudinal 

 dusky spots. The upper mandible clove-brown, and dusky 

 at the tip ; lower mandible flesh-red at the base, and dusky 

 at the tip. Iris brown ; legs bluish ash-colour. The female 

 is larger than the male, her colouring is more tinged with ash, 

 and her legs brown. The young are smaller according to age, 

 and their beaks also shorter, and by far less curved. 

 The egg figured 176 is that of the Curlew. 



