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5.— OTAHEITE CURLEW. 



Numenius Tahitiensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 711. 

 Scolopax Tahitiensis, Gm. Lin. i. 656. 

 Otaheite Curlew, Gen. Syn. v. 122. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill four inches long, moderately 

 bent, and brown, base reddish ; head and neck pale reddish white, 

 with numerous dusky lines; crown of the head brown ; over the eye 

 a pale streak ; back dusky black, waved with pale reddish white ; 

 under parts, from the breast, of the last colour, with a few mottlings 

 over the thighs ; wing coverts reddish white and dusky mixed ; the 

 quills dusky, with pale edges ; tail dirty yellow ; base half marked 

 with irregular dusky spots; the rest barred across with the same; 

 legs blue grey. 



Inhabits Otaheite, and there called Tevrea. — Sir Jos. Banks. 



6— WHITE-HEADED CURLEW.— Pl. cli. 



Numenius leucocephalus, Ind. Orn. ii. 711. 



Scolopax leucocephala, Gm. Lin. i. 656. 



White-Headed Curlew, Gen. Syn. v. 123. pl. 80. Id. Sup. 242. 



SIZE of a Common Curlew. Bill pretty long and red; head, 

 and part of the neck white; the rest of the plumage very deep blue, 

 except the quills, which are black brown ; legs cinereous grey. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



A. — Tantalus Hagedash, Ind. Orn. ii. 709. 



Hagedash, or Hadelde, a new species of Tantalus, Sparrm. Voy. i. 281. 



Dr. Sparrman describes this bird, with the bill red above, the 

 tip of it, and the under mandible black, length of it five inches; 



