38 
ESQUIMAUX WHIMBREL. 
brown, with the base yellow : the head and neck are 
brown ; with whitish margins to the feathers : the 
back and under parts from the breast of a chesnut 
brown : the scapulars, rump, upper and under tall- 
coverts and tail, are bright brown, tinged with green : 
wing-coverts the same; but the outer ones, farthest 
from the body, are brown within : the quills are 
brown, edged with glossy green-brown : the legs are 
grey-brown : the claws dusky. 
Inhabits Brazil, Guiana, and other parts of South 
America. It has been erroneously given as a British 
species, but the bird described as such appears to 
have been a variety of the Glossy Ibis. 
ESQUIMAUX WHIMBREL. 
(Phseopus borealis ) 
Ph. rostro pedihitsque nigris, corjjore fusco griseo maadato,subtus 
ochroleuco. 
Whimbrel with the beak and legs black, the body brown, spotted 
with grey, beneath whitish ochre. 
Numenius borealis. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 712. 9. 
Scolopax borealis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 6.54? 
Esquimaux Curlew. Lath. Gen. Syn. v. 125, Phil. Trans. Ixii. 
p. 411. Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vn.p. 22. pi. Ivi.y. 1. 
Length thirteen inches : beak very slender and 
dusky ; with the base of the under mandible rufous : 
head pale, marked with longitudinal brown stripes : 
the forehead is deep brown, spotted with pale whitish : 
