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CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
and in the Purre or Dunlin at this season, to which, 
in the whole summer dress, there is a considerable 
resemblance ; the flanks and under tail-coverts are 
dashed along their centres with brownish -black. 
The length of this specimen is eight and a-half 
inches, and shows a great disparity in the length 
of the bill, which, to the forehead, is only one inch 
and a-tenth, while in the two previously described, 
it is respectively one inch and three-tenths, and one 
inch and four-tenths. The Northern Zoology, how- 
ever, states, that the bill in the female is generally 
a quarter of an inch larger than in the opposite sex. 
In the young, Mr. Selby states the plumage to be 
“ dull greyish -black, the feathers being margined 
with dirty yellowish-brown ; bill at the base ochre- 
yellow.” 
The Curlew Sandpiper, Tringa subarquata, 
Temminc/c. — Tringa subarquata , modem British 
writers. — Becasseau corcoli, Temm. — Curlew Trin- 
ga or Sandpiper, and Pigmy Curlew of British 
authors. — Of a more slender form, and standing 
higher than the Dunlin or Purre, this species has 
nevertheless been at times mistaken for it ; but it 
may always be distinguished from that species, even 
in flight, by the white colour of the rump and upper 
tail-coverts. It is nowhere so abundant, and does 
not assemble in the vast flocks in ■which we some- 
times find the others, but sometimes it mixes with 
them, where, in addition to the conspicuous white 
