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COMMON FALCINELLE* 
(Falcinellus pygmaeus.) 
Fa. yusco-Jerr-t(gi)ieo alboque variegatus, corpore subtus iiropjj- 
gioque albo, reinigibus rectricibusque exterioribus albo mar- 
gin at is. 
Rusty-brown Falcinelle variegated with white, the body beneath 
and rump white, the quills and outer tail-feathers margined 
with white. 
Numenius pygmeeus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1 1 . 713. II . 
Scolopax pygmeea? Gmel. Syst. Nat. ii. 655. 
Le plus petit des courlis. Sonn. Buff. xxii.^. 245. 
Beccasseau platyrinque, Temm. man. d'Orn. 398. Id. 2. Edit. 
2. G17. 
Pygmy Curlew. Penn. Geyi. Birds, 64. pi. 11. Lath. Gen. Syn. 
ii. 127. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup. Fig. Wale. Syn. ii. 2)1. 135. 
Le'M. Brit. Birds, iv. pi. 155. 
This rare bird is about six inches and a half in 
length : its summer plumage answers to the following 
description : the head and occiput are of a dusky 
brown, divided by two longitudinal rufous bands : 
the eyebrows are white, spotted with brown : between 
the beak and the eye is a dusky brown stripe : the 
sides of the head are whitish, striped with brown : 
the nape is ash-coloured, longitudinally dashed with 
brown : the feathers of the back and the scapulars 
are black, longitudinally ranged, and edged with 
rufous : the wing-coverts arc dusky towards the tip 
and whitish-red at their tips : the throat, breast, and 
under parts of the body are of a pure white : the 
front and sides of the neck arc reddish-white, prettily 
