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widening before the tip. It has a sharp ridge on the culmen, 
and the end is decidedly decurved, whence its Latin name of 
sub-armatus,^ and its English name of “ Curlew ’’-Sandpiper, 
from a certain resemblance of its curved bill to that of a Curlew! 
I. THE CURLEW-SANDPIPER. ANCYLOCHILUS SUBARCUATUS. 
Scolopax subarquata, Giildenst. N. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 471 
(i774)- 
Trmga subarquata, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 215 (1852) ; 
Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 59, pi. 553 (1878); B. O. u! 
List Brit. B. p. 170 (1883); Saunders, cd. Yarrell, 
Brit. B. iii. (1S83) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 180 
(1885) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. 403 (1889); Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxv. (1893). 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — General colour above deep 
bay or dark cinnamon-rufous, varied with whitish edges to the 
feather.s, which are mottled with black centres, taking the form 
of stripes on the head and b.ack, and of cross-bars on the 
scapulars ; lower back dull .ashy-brown, with whitish edges ; 
sides of lower b.ack, rump, and upper tail-coverts white, the latter 
tinged with rufous, and showing a few bl.ack bars; wing-coverts 
brown, with whitish edgings, the greater series tipped with white, 
forming a wing-bar ; some of the coverts rufous like the back,’ 
and some of the inner secondaries also rufous on their edges • 
primary-coverts and quills darker brown, the latter with white 
tips and white shafts, the secondaries fringed with white, more 
broadly on the shorter ones, which arc white at the base of the 
inner web ; tail-feathers ashy-brown with white fringes and white 
shafts ; head like the back, but showing less distinct blackish 
centres to the feathers; the hind-neck distinctly hoary, owing 
to the edgings of the feathers ; sides of face and under surface 
of body rich vinous chestnut with more or less distinct rem.ains 
of hoary m.argins to the feathers ; vent and under tail-coverts 
white, the latter tinged with rufous, and having a few bkack 
bars ; sides of body and flanks pure white, the latter with a few 
black bars ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; lower 
primary- coverts and under surface of quills light ashy ; bill, legs, 
feet, and claws black ; iris hazel. Potal length, 7*4 inebeg ; 
culmen, 1-35; wing, 5'3; tail, T'9; tarsus, IT5, " ' ' 
