172 CURLEW. 



found in the rainy season, about Calcutta ; but is not common. It 

 is also said to be met with at Hervey's Island,* in the Southern Ocean. 

 A bird of this kind has been brought from New-Holland ; it differs 

 in having the bill considerably longer in proportion, and the ground 

 colour of the plumage dull ferruginous, instead of brown ; bill 

 black; irides yellow ; legs dull blue. Native name Gaar-arr-re-bing. 

 One of these in the collection of Mr. Francillon, had the plumage 

 considerably darker than in the Common one ; head and neck 

 marbled brown and pale rufous; sides of the head, before the eye, 

 and chin, pale rufous, or clay-colour, divided by a blackish line ; 

 breast, belly, and vent, white ; the plumage in general more mottled, 

 and the back and wings barred blackish and pale rufous. 



There are two Varieties at Sumatra, a larger called Terok Indo- 

 ayam, or Terok Gaja, and a smaller called Terok Padi.f 



2.— LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 



Numenius magnus vufus, Sea Coast Curlew, Bartr. Trav. 292. Ind. Orn. ii. 710. B> 



Gen. Syn. v. p. 120. Var. 

 Scolopax longirostra, Amer. Orn.ix. pi. 64. f. 4. — Long-billed Curlew. 



LENGTH two feet. Bill seven inches, more slender than in the 

 European Species, and brown ; the under mandible, from the base 

 to half the length, paler; in plumage the bird is mixed and blended, 

 somewhat in the manner of the Common One, but with a fine tinge 

 of rufous throughout ; chin white ; fore part of the neck and breast 

 rufous, the feathers streaked with black down the shafts ; the whole 

 of the breast, belly, and vent fine pale rufous, with a rose-coloured 

 tinge; the quills black, the first having a white shaft, and the four 

 exterior rufous within, barred with black ; the others marked the 

 same on both webs ; the under wing coverts fine deep rufous rose- 



* Cook's last Voyage. -f- Lin. Trans, xiii. 13. 



