174 CURLEW. 



dashed with brown, the last barred with the same ; the three first 

 quills plain black ; the fourth spotted on the inner web, and the 

 others on both webs ; secondaries much the same, but the ground- 

 colour grey; tail grey, barred with brown; legs red brown. 

 Inhabits Madagascar, and seems very similar to our Species. 



4— LUZONIAN CURLEW. 



Numenius Luzoniensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 711. 



Scolopax Luzoniensis, Gin. Lin. i. 656. 



Le Courtis tachete de Luzon, Son. Voy. 85. pi. 48. Buf. viii. 32. 



Luzonian Curlew, Gen. Syn. v. 122. 



SMALLER than our Species. Top of the head black ; the rest 

 of the head, neck, and breast white, marked with narrow, longi- 

 tudinal streaks of black ; the belly with transverse, curved bands of 

 the same ; wing coverts and back the colour of umber, with from 

 two to six white spots on the margin of every feather ; the greater 

 quills black ; tail vinaceous grey, crossed with black lines. 



Inhabits the Island of Lnzonia. 



A. — Length twenty-seven inches. The head, neck, and breast 

 dusky white, streaked with brown ; breast, belly, and thighs, white ; 

 on the back a few spots of white ; the outer quills spotted with the 

 same; but the general colour of the upper parts of the body, and 

 wings, much like our Curlew ; the tail crossed with four or five dusky 

 bars; legs deep blue. 



Inhabits India. — Sir John Anstruther. 



