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the sides with a shallow groove to near the end, the edges 
directly meeting those of the upper, the tip obtuse. Head 
rather small, oblong, compressed ; neck long ; body com- 
pact. Feet long ; tibia bare below ; tarsus scaly above, 
scutellate for two-thirds ; toes rather small, scutellate, first 
very small, lateral nearly equal. Claws small, compressed, 
blunted. Wings long, very acute, the first quill longest, 
some of the inner secondaries greatly elongated. Tail short, 
much rounded, of twelve rounded feathers. 
357. 1. Numenius longirostris, Wils. Long-billed Curlew. 
Plate CCXXXI. Male and Female. 
Bill more than four times the length of the head, nearly straight to 
the middle, beyond which it is slightly decurved, deep brown, toward 
the base dark flesh-coloured ; feet light greyish-blue ; general ground 
colour of the plumage light yellowish-red ; the head marked with ob- 
long spots ; the back with spots and bars of brownish-black ; alula 
and outer web of first four quills deep brown, the rest of the quills of 
the general colour, barred on both webs with dark brown, as are the 
tail-feathers ; upper part of throat and lower eyelid whitish ; neck 
marked with longitudinal lines of brownish- black ; sides barred with 
the same, as are the lower larger wing-coverts ; the rest of the lower 
parts unspotted, the sides and lower wing-coverts of a richer yellow- 
ish-red than the rest. The bill varies from seven to nine inches. 
Male, 26, 40. 
Resident, and breeds in the Texas and on the Islands off South Ca- 
rolina. Stragglers go far north. Columbia River. Occasionally seen 
in the interior. 
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longirostris, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 23. 
Numenius longirostris, Bonap. Syn. p. 314. 
Numenius longirostris. Long-billed Curlew, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 376. 
Long-billed Curlew, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 94. 
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longirostris, Aud . Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 240 ; v. v. 
p. 587. 
358. 2. Numenius Hudsonicus, Lath. Hudsonian Curlew. 
Plate CCXXXVII. Male. 
Bill little more than twice the length of the head, brownish-black, 
base of lower mandible flesh-coloured ; upper part of head deep brown, 
with a central and two lateral lines of whitish ; a brown line from the 
bill to the eye, and another behind the latter ; neck all round pale 
yellowish -grey, longitudinally streaked with brown, excepting the 
