Allen’s natukalist’s liisrary. 
gregate at the smaller end. Axis, 2'65-2'9 inches; diam., 
1 - 8 - 2 ' 0 . 
II. THE WHLMRREL. NUMENIUS PH.EOPUS. 
Scolopax pJimopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 243 (1766). 
Numenius phceopus, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 253 (1852) ; Dresser, 
B. Eur. viii. p. 227, pi. 576 (1873) ; B. O. U. last Brit. B. 
p. 179 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. p. 507 
(1883); Seebohni, Hist. B. iii, p. 100 (1885); Saunders, 
Man. Brit. B. p. 613 (1889); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xxiv.p. 355 (1896). 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage.— General colour above nearly 
uniform dark brown, excepting for the broad ashy-brown mark- 
ings on the feathers of the mantle and upper hack ; the wing- 
coverts like the back, but the margins paler and more whitish, 
the greater series with whitish notches on both webs ; bastard- 
wing and primary-coverts dark brown, fringed with white at the 
ends ; primaries blackish-brown, notched with white on the 
inner webs, which have a barred appearance along the edge of 
the latter, the inner pdmaries notched with white, also on the 
outer webs ; secondaries brown, notched on the outer web and 
barred on the inner web with white, the innermost secondaries 
nearly uniform brown like the back ; the shafts of the outer pri- 
mary white, of the second whity-brown, and of the rest pale 
brown; lower back and rump white, slightly mottled with longi- 
tudinal spots of blackish-brown, more or less concealed on the 
back, but larger and more distinct on the rump ; upper tail- 
coverts barred with brown and whitish, the brown bars some- 
what irregular and not co terminous; tail-feathers ashy-brown 
and tipped with white, and crossed by regular bars of daik 
brown, about nine in number; centre of crown whitish and 
streaked with brown, the remaimier of the crown dark brown, 
forming two broad bands, and followed by a broad eyebrow of 
dull white, and narrowly streaked with small lines of blackish ; 
lores and upper margin of ear-coverts dark brown ; remainder 
of sides of face and neck all round pale brown, streaked with 
darker brown, the cheeks somewhat whiter ; chin and upper 
throat white, with scarcely any brown spots ; lower throat, 
breast, and sides of body pale rufescent-buff, thickly clouded 
