OTAHEITE CURLEW. 
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Reddish -white Curlew, with black striae on the neck, the back 
and wing-coverts undulated with dusky and white, the base of 
the tail and fasciae near its tip black. 
Numenius tahitiensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 711. 
Scolopax tahitiensis. Chnel. Sijsf. Nat. 1. 656. 
Otaheite Curlew. Lath. Gen. Si/n. v. 122. 
This bird measures twenty inches in length : its 
beak is brown, with the base reddish : the head and 
neck are pale reddish white longitudinally striped 
with dusky : the top of the head is brown ; the eye- 
brows pale : the back is dusky black undulated with 
pale rufous-white : the wing-coverts are reddish white 
varied with dusky : the quills are dusky, edged with 
whitish : the under parts of the body are pale reddish 
white slightly varied with dusky : the tail is dirty 
yellow with irregular dusky spots on the basal half, 
and dusky transverse bars towards the tip : the legs 
are blue-grey : the claws black. This bird is called 
Terrea in Otaheite, of which Island it is a native. 
V. XII. p. I. 
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